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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Astictopterini |
| Genus: | Aeromachus de Nicéville, 1890 |
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 edit
- Aeromachus bandaishanus Murayama & Shimonoya, 1973
- Aeromachus catocyanea (Mabille, 1879) Yunnan
- Aeromachus cognatus Inoue & Kawazoe, 1966 Vietnam
- 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 piceus Leech, 1894 Sichuan, Yunnan
- Aeromachus plumbeola (C. & R. Felder, 1867)
- Aeromachus propinquus Alphéraky, 1897 Yunnan
- Aeromachus pseudojhora Lee, 1962 South Yunnan
- Aeromachus pygmaeus (Fabricius, 1775) Nilgiris, Wynaad, Coorg, Kanara, Assam to Burma, Thailand
- Aeromachus skola Evans, 1943
- Aeromachus spuria Evans, 1943
- Aeromachus stigmata (Moore, 1878) Northwest Himalaya, Murree to Assam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan.
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