Biology:Choaspes furcata
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Short description: Species of insect
| Hooked awlking | |
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| Genus: | Choaspes
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| Species: | C. furcata
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| Choaspes furcata Evans, 1932[1]
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Choaspes furcata,[2][3] the hooked awlking,[lower-alpha 1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Range
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
William Harry Evans had considered this taxon as a subspecies of plateni and given its status in India as rare.[4]
Notes
Cited references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Choaspes hemixanthus ssp. furcata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=182427. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
- Coeliadinae
- Hesperiidae
- List of butterflies of India (Coeliadinae)
- List of butterflies of India (Hesperiidae)
References
- 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. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/. 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". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/..
Wikidata ☰ Q5103433 entry
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