''Ampittia dioscorides'', the common bush hopper or simply bush hopper, is a

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

found in

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, China,

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, Cambodia and on to

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, Sumatra and

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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 ...

Description

Subspecies

*''A. d. dioscorides'' Ceylon, Peninsular India, Calcutta, Sikkim to Assam, Burma *''A. d. etura'' (Mabille, 1891) Vietnam, Hainan, South Yunnan, Taiwan *''A. d. camertes'' (Hewitson, 1868) Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Java, Bali File:Ampittia dioscorides of Kadavoor.jpg, Male File:Ampittia dioscorides at Kadavoor.jpg, Female File:Ampittia dioscorides mating at Kadavoor.jpg, Mating pair; male right, female left Bush hopper (Ampittia dioscorides singa) male underside.jpg, ''A. d. singa'', male Sri Lanka File:AmpittiaDioscorides 786 1 Fitch.png, Illustration

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