Choaspes furcata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Choaspes |
Species: | C. furcata |
Binomial name | |
Choaspes furcata | |
Choaspes furcata, [2] [3] the hooked awlking, [a] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
The hooked awlking ranges in India along the Himalayas from Kashmir to Nepal, Sikkim and Assam onto Myanmar and western China and possibly Borneo. [2]
William Harry Evans had considered this taxon as a subspecies of plateni and given its status in India as rare. [4]
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