Tagiades trebellius

Tagiades trebellius is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae (subfamily Pyrginae).

Tagiades trebellius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Tagiades
Species:
T. trebellius
Binomial name
Tagiades trebellius
(Hopffer, 1874)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pterygospidea trebellius Hopffer, 1874
  • Tagiades mitra avathana Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Tagiades martinus nicaja Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Tagiades sivoa canonicus Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Tagiades persimilis Rothschild, 1916

Subspecies
  • T. t. trebellius (Sulawesi)
  • T. t. sem Mabille, 1883 (Sangihe, Talaud)
  • T. t. martinus Plötz, 1884 (Japan)
  • T. t. neira Plötz, 1885
  • T. t. mitra Mabille, 1895 (Sula Islands)
  • T. t. canonicus Fruhstorfer, 1910 (New Guinea)

Tagiades trebellius martinus larvae feed on Dioscorea alata, D. cirrhosa (Dioscoreaceae).[2]

References
  1. Tagiades, funet.fi
  2. Taro Iwase , 1964 Recent foodplant records of the Loochooan butterflies Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 1964:105-109


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