''Polytremis eltola'', the yellow spot swift, is a species of

skipper butterfly 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 ...

found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

Description

Found in Darjeeling, Kumaon (Doherty); Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville); Kangra, N.-W. Himalayas (Moore) Sikkim (de Niceville; Elwes) and (''P. e. corbeti'' Evans, 1937) the Malay Peninsula.

References

Hesperiinae Butterflies of Asia Butterflies of Indochina Butterflies described in 1869 Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{hesperiinae-stub