Species of butterfly
| Tagiades nestus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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| Class:
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Insecta
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| Order:
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Lepidoptera
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| Family:
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Hesperiidae
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| Genus:
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Tagiades
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| Species:
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T. nestus
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| Binomial name
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Tagiades nestus
(Felder, 1860)
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| Synonyms
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List
- Pterygospidea nestus C. Felder, 1860
- Tagiades curiosa Swinhoe, 1905
- Tagiades monachus Fruhstorfer, 1910
- Tagiades curatus Fruhstorfer, 1910
- Tagiades swinhoei Fruhstorfer, 1910
- Tagiades suffusus Rothschild, 1915
- Tagiades neira var. metanga Ribbe, 1889
- Tagiades korela Mabille, 1891
- Tagiades sivoa Swinhoe, 1904
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Tagiades nestus, the Papuan snow flat or Nestus flat, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found on the Australian islands in the Torres Strait and in New Guinea.
Its wingspan is about 40 mm.
Its larvae feed on Dioscorea species.
Subspecies
- Tagiades nestus nestus
- Tagiades nestus sivoa Swinhoe, 1904 (New Guinea)
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