Tagiades nestus

Tagiades nestus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Tagiades
Species:	T. nestus
Binomial name
Tagiades nestus (Felder, 1860)
Synonyms
List Pterygospidea nestusC. Felder, 1860 Tagiades curiosaSwinhoe, 1905 Tagiades monachusFruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades curatusFruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades swinhoeiFruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades suffususRothschild, 1915 Tagiades neira var. metangaRibbe, 1889 Tagiades korelaMabille, 1891 Tagiades sivoaSwinhoe, 1904

Tagiades nestus, the Papuan snow flat or Nestus flat, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found on the Australian islands in the Torres Strait and in New Guinea.

Its wingspan is about 40 mm (1.6 in).

Its larvae feed on Dioscorea species.

Subspecies

• Tagiades nestus nestus
• Tagiades nestus sivoaSwinhoe, 1904 (New Guinea)

External links

• Australian Insects