Choaspes furcata
Appearance
Hooked awlking | |
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Species: | C. furcata
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Choaspes furcata |
Choaspes furcata,[2][3] the hooked awlking,[a] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Range
[edit]The hooked awlking ranges in India along the Himalayas from Kashmir to Nepal, Sikkim and Assam onto Myanmar and western China and possibly Borneo.[2]
Status
[edit]William Harry Evans had considered this taxon as a subspecies of plateni and given its status in India as rare.[4]
Notes
[edit]Cited references
[edit]- ^ a b Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Choaspes hemixanthus ssp. furcata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
- ^ a b Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera - page on genus Choaspes.
- ^ TOL web page on genus Choaspes
- ^ Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 321, ser no I4.5.
See also
[edit]- Coeliadinae
- Hesperiidae
- List of butterflies of India (Coeliadinae)
- List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)
References
[edit]- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
Online
- Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- Brower, Andrew V. Z., (2007). Choaspes Moore 1881. Version 21 February 2007 (under construction). Page on genus Choaspes in The Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/.
- "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera"..