Tagiades trebellius

Tagiades trebellius
Subspecies martinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Tagiades
Species:	T. trebellius
Binomial name
Tagiades trebellius (Hopffer, 1874) [1]
Synonyms
Pterygospidea trebelliusHopffer, 1874 Tagiades mitra avathanaFruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades martinus nicajaFruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades sivoa canonicusFruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades persimilisRothschild, 1916

Tagiades trebellius is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae (subfamily Pyrginae). It is a distinctly discernible form; a larger skipper, with a complete, closed circle of rather thick, small hyaline spots on the forewing; on the hindwing the marginal spots begin to form a closed row of spots.

Subspecies

• T. t. trebellius (Sulawesi)
• T. t. semMabille, 1883 (Sangihe, Talaud)
• T. t. martinusPlötz, 1884 (Japan)
• T. t. mitraMabille, 1895 (Sula Islands)

Tagiades trebellius martinus larvae feed on Dioscorea alata, D. cirrhosa (Dioscoreaceae). ^[2]

References

1. Tagiades, funet.fi
2. Taro Iwase , 1964 Recent foodplant records of the Loochooan butterflies Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 1964:105-109