Biology:Tagiades menaka
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Spotted snow flat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Tagiades |
| Species: | T. menaka
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| Binomial name | |
| Tagiades menaka (Moore, 1867)
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Tagiades menaka, commonly known as the spotted snow flat or the dark-edged snow flat, is a species of spread-winged skipper butterflies. It contains three subspecies.[1]
- Tagiades menaka manis
- Found in the Himalayas from Kashmir to Assam, and Burma
- Tagiades menaka mantra Evans, 1934
- Found in the northwest Himalayas, Burma, Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, and Hainan, southern China
- Tagiades menaka menaka Evans, 1934
T. m. vajuna from Kanara, India has been transferred to the species Tagiades litigiosa. T. m. var. formosana and T. m. var. cohaerens of southern China and Taiwan, has been reclassified as Tagiades cohaerens.[1][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Markku Savela. "Tagiades Hübner, 1819". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/tagiades/index.html. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
- ↑ Yu-Feng Hsu; Hideyuki Chiba; Ying-Chuan Yang; Hiroshi Tsukiyama; Ping-Shih Yang; Shou-Ming Wang (2006). "A Taxonomic Review of the Taiwanese Skippers Described by Shonen Matsumura (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)". Zoological Studies 45 (3): 322–338. http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/45.3/322.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q7675269 entry
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