Choaspes (butterfly)

Choaspes
Choaspes subcaudata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Hesperiidae
Subfamily:Coeliadinae
Genus:Choaspes
Moore, [1881]

Choaspes is an Indomalaya ecozone and Australasian ecozone genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. They are the only skippers with strongly hairy eyes.

Species

  • Choaspes benjaminii (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
  • Choaspes estrella de Jong, 1980 Philippines
  • Choaspes hemixanthus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Sulawesi, Halamahera, New Guinea
  • Choaspes furcatus Evans, 1932 Nepal to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Malay Peninsula, Palawan
  • Choaspes illuensis (Ribbe, 1900) New Guinea
  • Choaspes plateni (Staudinger, 1888)
  • Choaspes subcaudata (C. & R. Felder, [1867])
  • Choaspes xanthopogon (Kollar, [1844])

References


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