Satarupa (butterfly)

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Satarupa
Satarupa gopala
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Tagiadini
Genus: Satarupa
Moore, 1866

Satarupa is a genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Etymology

Satarupa comes from the Pali śatá (Sanskrit शत shata) meaning "100" and rupa (Sanskrit रूप "rūpa") meaning "form" or "beauty",[2] thus meaning "one hundred (beautiful) forms". It is the name given the wife of Manu; compare the goddess Saraswati.

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