Biology:Tagiades nestus
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Short description: Species of butterfly
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Tagiades |
| Species: | T. nestus
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| Binomial name | |
| Tagiades nestus (Felder, 1860)[1]
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List
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Tagiades nestus, the Papuan snow flat or Nestus flat, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found on the Australian islands in the Torres Strait and in New Guinea.
Its wingspan is about 40 mm (1.6 in).
Its larvae feed on Dioscorea species.
Subspecies
This species is divided into the following subspecies:[1]
- Tagiades nestus subsp. biakana Evans, 1934
- Evans, 1949 Evans, 1949
- Butler, 1882 Tagiades nestus subsp. suffusus
- Tagiades nestus subsp. mefora Rothschild, 1915
- Tagiades nestus subsp. gilolensis Evans, 1934
- Tagiades nestus subsp. nestus Tagiades nestus subsp. brunta
- Mabille, 1878
- Tagiades nestus subsp. pentaja Tagiades nestus subsp. juncta
- Fruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades nestus subsp. presbyter
References
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q7675270 entry
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