Tagiades menaka

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Spotted snow flat
Dark Edged Snow Flat (Tagiades menaka) from Hong Kong 2.jpg
In Hong Kong
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Tagiades
Species:
T. menaka
Binomial name
Tagiades menaka
(Moore, 1867)
Synonyms
  • Pterygospidea menakaMoore, 1867
  • Tagiades manisEvans, 1934
  • Tagiades vulturnaPlötz, 1884
  • Tagiades menaka gavinaFruhstorfer, 1910

Tagiades menaka, commonly known as the spotted snow flat or the dark-edged snow flat, is a species of spread-winged skipper butterflies. It contains three subspecies. [1]

  • Tagiades menaka manis
Found in the Himalayas from Kashmir to Assam, and Burma
  • Tagiades menaka mantraEvans, 1934
Found in the northwest Himalayas, Burma, Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, and Hainan, southern China
  • Tagiades menaka menakaEvans, 1934

T. m. vajuna from Kanara, India has been transferred to the species Tagiades litigiosa . T. m. var. formosana and T. m. var. cohaerens of southern China and Taiwan, has been reclassified as Tagiades cohaerens . [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Markku Savela. "Tagiades Hübner, 1819". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
  2. Yu-Feng Hsu; Hideyuki Chiba; Ying-Chuan Yang; Hiroshi Tsukiyama; Ping-Shih Yang & Shou-Ming Wang (2006). "A Taxonomic Review of the Taiwanese Skippers Described by Shonen Matsumura (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)" (PDF). Zoological Studies. 45 (3): 322–338.