Band-spotted skipper

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Identification: The wings are dark brown with white fringe. The forewings have four central transparent spots and three subapical transparent spots. The hindwings have four white spots on the upperside and a vertical white band (from costa to second cell above dorsum) on the underside. The tornus is also white on the underside of the hindwings and there are three postdiscal white spots with black outlines. 

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Reported from: Tain (Region 6), Demerara River