Tagiades insularis

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Tagiades insularis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Tagiades
Species:
T. insularis
Binomial name
Tagiades insularis
Mabille, 1876 [1]

Tagiades insularis is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found on Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. [2] The habitat consists of forests, forest margins and anthropogenic environments.

Subspecies

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