Badamia

Badamia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Coeliadinae
Genus:	Badamia Moore, [1881]

Badamia is an Indoaustralian genus of skipper butterflies containing two species. The larvae feed on Terminalia (Combretaceae).

Species

• Badamia atrox (Butler, 1877) Fiji
• Badamia exclamationis (Fabricius, 1775)

References

• de Jong, R. & Treadaway, C. G. 2007 Hesperiidae of the Philippine Islands. In Butterflies of the World, Supplement 15 (ed. E. Bauer & T. Frankenbach), pp. 1-72. Keltern: Goecke & Elvers.
• Parsons M. 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology. Academic Press, San Diego.
• Tennent, W. J. 2002. Butterflies of the Solomon Islands: systematics and biogeography. Storm Entomological Publications, Dereham, Norfolk, U. K.

External links

• Badamia at funet
• Images representing Badamia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

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