''Hyarotis microstictum'', the brush flitter, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

belonging to the family

Hesperiidae Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...

. It is found in the

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. ''H. m. coorga'' Evans, 1949 is the subspecies found in South India. ''H. m. microstictum'' (Wood-Mason & de Nicéville,

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is the subspecies found in the Indomalayan realm.

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Hesperiinae Butterflies described in 1887 Taxa named by James Wood-Mason Taxa named by Lionel de Nicéville {{Hesperiinae-stub