Choaspes (butterfly)

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

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

Species

  • Choaspes adhara Fruhstorfer, 1911
  • Choaspes benjaminii (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
  • Choaspes estrella de Jong, 1980 Philippines
  • Choaspes hemixanthus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Sulawesi, Halamahera, New Guinea
  • Choaspes illuensis (Ribbe, 1900) New Guinea
  • Choaspes plateni (Staudinger, 1888)
  • Choaspes stigmata Evans, 1932
  • Choaspes subcaudata (C. & R. Felder, [1867])
  • Choaspes xanthopogon (Kollar, [1844])

Etymology

Presumably from Greek choaspes (Χοάσπης [=Khoáspēs]), masculine proper noun, from the river Karkheh or Karkhen in Khūzestān Province Andimeshk city, Iran (ancient Susiana). It is mentioned as Choaspes by Pliny.

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