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Choaspes (butterfly)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Family
  
Hesperiidae

Rank
  
Genus

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Lower classifications
  
Choaspes benjaminii, Choaspes xanthopogon, Choaspes plateni

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

    Choaspes (butterfly) Wikipedia
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