Halpe

Halpe
Halpe homolea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Astictopterini
Genus:	Halpe Moore, 1878
Species
Halpe homolea Halpe honorei Halpe porus

Halpe is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. ^[1]

Species

• Halpe albicilla de Jong & Treadaway, 1993 Sulawesi.
• Halpe arcuata Evans, 1937 Northeast India, Burma to Malay Peninsula, Laos, Yunnan
• Halpe aucma Swinhoe, 1893 Tibet
• Halpe aurifera (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Nias
• Halpe beturia (Hewitson, 1868) Sulawesi, Banggai
• Halpe burmana Swinhoe, 1893 Burma, Thailand, Laos
• Halpe clara Cassidy, 1985 Borneo
• Halpe damar Bedford-Russel, 1984 Sulawesi
• Halpe dante Evans, 1949
• Halpe dizangpusa Huang, 2002 China
• Halpe elana Eliot, 1939 Thailand, Laos, Malaya
• Halpe fasciata Elwes & Edwards, 1897
• Halpe filda Evans, 1949 Tibet, Sikkim
• Halpe flava Evans, 1926 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Malaya, Borneo
• Halpe frontieri Devyatkin, 1997 Vietnam
• Halpe gamma Evans, 1937 China, Formosa
• Halpe handa Evans, 1949 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Yunnan
• Halpe hauxwelli Evans, 1937 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan
• Halpe hermaphrodite Chiba & Tsukiyama, 1999 Philippines
• Halpe hieron de Nicéville, 1894 Sumatra
• Halpe homolea (Hewitson, 1868) Sikkim - Assam, Burma, Ceylon Malaya, Java
• Halpe inconspicua de Jong & Treadaway, 1993 Philippines
• Halpe insignis (Distant, 1886) Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra
• Halpe knyvetti Elwes & Edwards, 1897 India, Tibet, Sikkim
• Halpe kumara de Nicéville, 1885 Sikkim, Assam, Yunnan
• Halpe kusala Frühstorfer, 1911 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
• Halpe luteisquama (Mabille, 1877) Philippines
• Halpe luzona Evans, 1949 Philippines
• Halpe mixta Huang, 2003 Yunnan
• Halpe molta Evans, 1949 Tibet
• Halpe muoi Huang, 1999 Yunnan
• Halpe nephele Leech, 1893 Sichuan, Laos
• Halpe nuydai Murayama & Okumura, 1973
• Halpe ormenes (Plötz, 1886) Sikkim to Burma, Yunnan, Thailand, Laos, Malaya, Java
• Halpe palawea Staudinger, 1889
• Halpe parakumara Huang, 2003 China
• Halpe paupera Devyatkin, 2002 Vietnam, Hong Kong
• Halpe pelethronix Frühstorfer, 1910 Burma, Thailand, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sundaland
• Halpe porus (Mabille, 1877) Nilgiris, Coorg, Kanara, Bihar, Mussoorie to Burma, West China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaya, Hainan, Langkawi
• Halpe purpurascens de Jong & Treadaway, 1993 Philippines
• Halpe scissa Cantlie, 1961 Assam
• Halpe sikkima Moore, 1882 Sikkim to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java
• Halpe sulphurifera (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
• Halpe tilia Evans, 1949 Philippines
• Halpe toxopea Evans, 1932 Thailand, Langkawi, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Palawan
• Halpe veluvana Frühstorfer, 1911 Java
• Halpe wantona Swinhoe, 1893 Assam to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Malaya
• Halpe zandra Evans, 1937
• Halpe zema (Hewitson, 1877) Sikkim to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan, Malaya, Java
• Halpe zinda Evans, 1937 Malaya
• Halpe zola Evans, 1937 Burma, Thailand, Laos

Biology

Halpe larvae feed on Gramineae including Dinochloa , Ochlandra talbotii and Bambusa ^[2]

References

1. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
2. Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. nhm hosts

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Funet