Choaspes (butterfly)

Choaspes
Choaspes subcaudata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Coeliadinae
Genus:	Choaspes 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]), masculune proper noun, from the river Karkheh or Karkhen in Khūzestān Province Andimeshk city, Iran (ancient Susiana). It is mentioned as Choaspes by Pliny.^[citation needed]

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Media related to Choaspes at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Choaspes (butterfly) at Wikispecies
• Choaspes at funet
• Images representing Choaspes at Encyclopedia of Life
• Images representing Choaspes at Consortium for the Barcode of Life