Aeromachus is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. The species are known by the common name of scrub hoppers. They are found in the eastern Palearctic and the Indomalayan realm.
Club of antenna of medium thickness, with a short, recurved tip. The second segment of the palpus erect, the third porrect (stretched forward). Vein 5 of forewing midway between 4 and 6. The males have usually a linear stigma on the forewing which extends from vein 3 to 1.
Species Aeromachus bandaishanus Murayama & Shimonoya, 1973 Aeromachus catocyanea (Mabille, 1879) China (Yunnan) Aeromachus cognatus Inoue & Kawazoe, 1966 Vietnam Aeromachus dalailama (Mabille, 1876) Aeromachus dubius Elwes & Edwards, 1897 Aeromachus inachus (Ménétriés, 1859) Ussuri, Amurland, Taiwan, Japan. Aeromachus jhora (de Nicéville, 1885) Aeromachus kali (de Nicéville, 1885) Aeromachus matsudai Murayama, 1943 Aeromachus monstrabilus Huang, 2003 Tibet Aeromachus muscus (Mabille, 1876) Aeromachus nanus (Leech, 1890) Aeromachus piceus Leech, 1894 China (Sichuan, Yunnan) Aeromachus plumbeola (C. & R. Felder, 1867) Aeromachus propinquus Alphéraky, 1897 China (Yunnan) Aeromachus pseudojhora Lee, 1962 China (Yunnan) Aeromachus pygmaeus (Fabricius, 1775) India (Nilgiris etc to Assam), Myanmar, Thailand Aeromachus skola Evans, 1943 Aeromachus spuria Evans, 1943 Aeromachus stigmata (Moore, 1878) Pakistan (Punjab), India (Assam), Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China (Yunnan).
References Further reading et al. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology, 44: 163–178.
External links Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Aeromachus at funet
Images representing Aeromachus at Consortium for the Barcode of Life