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Himalayan Swift
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Himalayan Swift

Polytremis discreta

Polytremis discreta, the Himalayan swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.A small, brown skipper with distinct white or dirty white spots on its wings. The spot in cell 2 shorter in proportion, its inner and outer edges nearly parallel. The ground-colour of the underside and the fringes, especially those of the hind wing, paler.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 785676.