Choaspes plateni

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Branded Awlking
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Coeliadinae
Genus: Choaspes
Species: C. plateni
Binomial name
Choaspes plateni
(Staudinger, 1888)[1][2][3]

Choaspes plateni,[1][2] commonly known as the Branded Awlking, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in Asia.

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[edit] Range

The Branded Awlking is found in India (Sikkim, Assam), south Myanmar (including Mergui), Malaysia, the Indonesian archipelago (including Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Bangka, Palawan), Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Hainan.[1]

[edit] Status

Rare.[4]

[edit] Cited references

  1. ^ a b c Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera - page on genus Choaspes.
  2. ^ a b TOL web page on genus Choaspes
  3. ^ Card for Choaspes plateni in LepIndex. Accessed 12 October 2007.
  4. ^ Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no I 4.5, pg 321.

[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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