''Choaspes'' is an
Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
and
Australasian realm
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genus of
skippers in the family
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilion ...
. They are the only skippers with strongly hairy eyes.
Species
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Choaspes adhara''
Fruhstorfer, 1911
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Choaspes benjaminii''
(Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
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Choaspes estrella''
de Jong, 1980 Philippines
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Choaspes hemixanthus''
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Sulawesi, Halamahera, New Guinea
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Choaspes illuensis''
(Ribbe, 1900) New Guinea
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Choaspes plateni''
(Staudinger, 1888)
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Choaspes stigmata''
Evans, 1932
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Choaspes subcaudata''
(C. & R. Felder, 867
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Choaspes xanthopogon''
(Kollar, 844
Etymology
Presumably from Greek , masculine proper noun, from the river
Karkheh
The Choaspes River (Iran) or Karkheh or Karkhen (Persian: کرخه) (perhaps the river known as the Gihon Ancient Greek: Γεῶν Book of Genesis 2:13 —one of the four Rivers of Paradise in the of Garden of Eden/Paradise in the Bible and a ...
or Karkhen in Khūzestān Province
Andimeshk city, Iran (ancient
Susiana
Susa ( ) was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran. One of the most important cities of the Ancient Near East, Susa served as the capital of Elam and the winter ca ...
). It is mentioned as Choaspes by Pliny.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
External links
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Images representing ''Choaspes''at
Encyclopedia of Life
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Coeliadinae
Butterflies of Indochina
Hesperiidae genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
Taxa described in 1881
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