Common Wight (Iton semamora)

About Common Wight (Iton semamora)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Arthropods
• Class: Insects
• Order: Butterflies and Moths
• Family: Skippers

Iton semamora, the common wight, is a skipper butterfly which is found in South and Southeast Asia, specifically, Sikkim, Myanmar and peninsular Malaysia. There is large upright hair-tuft on the forewing beneath at the hind-margin. On the hindwing beneath the whole cell is white, and also the adjoining three cells are white excepting the apex.