Tagiades trebellius

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Tagiades trebellius
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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).

Subspecies

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

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References

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