Choaspes (butterfly)

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

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

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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