''Badamia'' is an Indoaustralian
genus of
skipper butterflies
Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...
containing two species. The larvae feed on ''
Terminalia
Terminalia may refer to:
* Terminalia (festival), a Roman festival to the god of boundaries Terminus
* ''Terminalia'' (plant), a tree genus
* Terminalia (insect anatomy), the terminal region of the abdomen in insects
* ''Polyscias terminalia'', a ...
'' (Combretaceae).
Species
The genus includes the following species:
* ''
Badamia atrox''
(Butler, 1877) (
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
)
* ''
Badamia exclamationis''
(Fabricius, 1775)
References
* de Jong, R. & Treadaway, C. G. 2007 Hesperiidae of the Philippine Islands. ''In Butterflies of the World'', Supplement 15 (ed. E. Bauer & T. Frankenbach), pp. 1–72. Keltern: Goecke & Elvers.
* Parsons M. 1999. ''The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology.'' Academic Press, San Diego.
* Tennent, W. J. 2002. ''Butterflies of the Solomon Islands: systematics and biogeography''. Storm Entomological Publications, Dereham, Norfolk, U. K.
External links
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Coeliadinae
Butterflies of Indochina
Hesperiidae genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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