Choaspes furcata

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Hooked Awlking
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Coeliadinae
Genus: Choaspes
Species: C. furcata
Binomial name
Choaspes furcata
Evans, 1932[1]

Choaspes furcata,[2][3] commonly known as the Hooked Awlking,[4] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

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[edit] Range

The Hooked Awlking ranges in India along the Himalayas from Kashmir to Nepal, Sikkim and Assam) onto Myanmar and West China and possibly Borneo.[2]

[edit] Status

Rare.[5]

[edit] Cited references

  1. ^ Card for Choaspes furcata in LepIndex. Accessed 12 October 2007.
  2. ^ a b Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera - page on genus Choaspes.
  3. ^ TOL web page on genus Choaspes
  4. ^ The species is considered to be furcata by LepIndex, and as furcatus by TOLWeb. Savela gives it as furcatus without appropriate reference for the change. Accordingly it is being retained as furcata, with furcatus as redirect, pending the availability of a proper reference.
  5. ^ Evans (Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I4.5, pp 321) had considered this taxon as a subspecies of plateni and given its status in India as 'Rare'.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Print

  • Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. 2nd Ed, (i to x, pp454, Plates I to XXXII), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

Online

  • Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. [1] (accessed 22 September 2007).
  • 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/.
  • Savela, Marrku Website on Lepidoptera [2] (accessed 12 October 2007).


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