''Koruthaialos'' is an
Indomalayan
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 ...
genus of
grass skippers
Grass skippers or banded skippers are butterflies of the subfamily Hesperiinae, part of the skipper family, Hesperiidae. The subfamily was established by Pierre André Latreille in 1809.
Description and distribution
With over 2,000 described sp ...
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 ...
.
Species
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Koruthaialos butleri''
(de Nicéville, 1884) - Assam, Malaya, Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan
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Koruthaialos focula''
(Plötz, 1882) - Java, Sumatra, Borneo
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Koruthaialos frena''
Evans, 1949
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Koruthaialos rubecula''
(Plötz, 1882) - Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Yunnan, Langkawi, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Natuna, Bali, Philippines, Sumatra, Nias, Assam, Bangladesh
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Koruthaialos sindu''
(de Nicéville, 1884) - Assam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Yunnan, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Batoe, Siberut, Bali, Yunnan
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Koruthaialos swinhoei''
Elwes & Edwards, 1897
File:Piepers and Snellen Rhopalocera of Java Plate VIII.jpg, ''Koruthaialos sindu'' and ''Koruthaialos focula'' in Piepers and Snellen ''The Rhopalocera of Java''
File:RhopaloceraMalayanaXXXIV.jpg, ''Koruthaialos sindu'' in ''Rhopalocera Malayana''
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus databaseImages representing ''Koruthaialos''
at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barcoding as a global standard for species identification. CBOL's Secretariat Office is hosted by the National Museum of ...
Ancistroidini
Hesperiidae genera
Taxa named by Edward Yerbury Watson
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