Choaspes (butterfly)

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

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

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.

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