Tagiades
Snow flats | |
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Tagiades gana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Subfamily: | Pyrginae |
Tribe: | Tagiadini |
Genus: | Tagiades Hübner, 1819[1] |
Species | |
Several, see text | |
Synonyms | |
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Tagiades, commonly known as snow flats, is a genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies. It is the type genus of the tribe Tagiadini of the subfamily Pyrginae in the family Hesperiidae. It contains seventeen species; three of which are found in tropical Africa, while fourteen are found from India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, northeast Australia, to the Pacific Islands. They are primarily diurnal butterflies, and can usually be found in secondary forests at up to 1,300 m (4,300 ft) above sea level. They can sometimes be encountered in partially cleared or cultivated areas. They are fast flyers, flying at an average height of 2 to 6 m (6.6 to 19.7 ft). They usually rest on the undersides of leaves. When disturbed they will fly away but will usually return to the preferred area, often to the same leaf.[2]
Species
- Tagiades calligana Butler, [1879]
- Tagiades cohaerens Mabille, 1914
- Tagiades flesus (Fabricius, 1781) (clouded forester)
- Tagiades gana (Moore, [1866]) (large snow flat)
- Widespread in India, Indochina, and maritime Southeast Asia
- Tagiades hybridus Devyatkin, 2001
- Found in Central Vietnam.
- Tagiades insularis Mabille, 1876
- Found in Madagascar
- Tagiades japetus (Stoll, [1781]) (pied flat or common snow flat)
- Widespread in India, Indochina, maritime Southeast Asia, and northeastern Australia
- Tagiades lavata Butler, [1879]
- Found in southern Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and the Natuna Islands
- Tagiades litigiosa Möschler, 1878 (water snow flat)
- Tagiades menaka (Moore, [1866]) (dark edged snow flat or spotted snow flat)
- Found in the Himalayas (from Kashmir to Assam), Indochina, and Hainan
- Tagiades nestus (C. Felder, 1860) (Papuan snow flat)
- Found in Papua New Guinea, the Duke of York Island, and northern Australia
- Tagiades parra Fruhstorfer, 1910
- Found in Indochina and maritime Southeast Asia
- Tagiades samborana Grose-Smith, 1891
- Found in Madagascar
- Tagiades toba de Nicéville, [1896]
- Found from Assam to maritime Southeast Asia
- Tagiades trebellius (Hopffer, 1874)
- Found from Japan, the Philippines, and Sulawesi and the surrounding islands
- Tagiades ultra Evans, 1932
- Found in Indochina, maritime Southeast Asia, to Palawan in the Philippines
- Tagiades waterstradti Elwes & Edwards, 1897
- Found in maritime Southeast Asia
Gallery
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Tagiades litigiosa from India
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Tagiades japetus ravi from India
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Tagiades japetus titus from the Philippines
References
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- ↑ Tagiades, funet.fi
- ↑ Rienk de Jong & Colin Guy Treadaway (1993). "The Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) of the Philippines". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 288: 3–125.