''Polytremis pellucida'' 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 ...

Subspecies

* ''Polytremis pellucida pellucida'' - Japan, Russia: Amur, Ussuri, Sakhalin * ''Polytremis pellucida quanta'' Evans, 1949 - China: Guniujiang, Anhui * ''Polytremis pellucida asahinai'' Shirozu, 1952 - Taiwan * ''Polytremis pellucida inexpecta'' Tsukiyama, Chiba & Fujioka, 1997 - China: Zhejiang

Description

''Polytremis pellucida'' has a wingspan of about . Upperside of the forewings is dark brown, with a row of small white spots and markings. Also the hindwings are dark brown and have four elongate to ovoid white spots.

Host plants

Larvae of this species feed on plants of the family

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. Among the host plants are reported ''

Miscanthus sinensis ''Miscanthus sinensis'', the eulalia or Chinese silver grass, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to eastern Asia throughout most of China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Description It is an herbaceous perennial gras ...

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Oryza sativa ''Oryza sativa'', commonly known as Asian rice or indica rice, is the plant species most commonly referred to in English as ''rice''. It is the type of farmed rice whose cultivars are most common globally, and was first domesticated in the Yan ...

'' and some unidentified species of the genera

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Distribution

''Polytremis pellucida'' is present in eastern Asia, 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 ...

and in the

Palearctic realm The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

References

Hesperiinae Butterflies described in 1875 Butterflies of Asia {{Hesperiinae-stub