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Choaspes furcata

Hooked awlking
Close wing position of Choaspes furcata Evans, 1932 – Hooked Awlking.jpg
Scientific classification
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Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Choaspes
Species:
C. furcata
Binomial name
Choaspes furcata
Evans, 1932[1]

Choaspes furcata,[2][3] the hooked awlking,[a] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Range

The hooked awlking ranges in India along the Himalayas from Kashmir to Nepal, Sikkim and Assam onto Myanmar and western China and possibly Borneo.[2]

Status

William Harry Evans had considered this taxon as a subspecies of plateni and given its status in India as rare.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ The species is considered to be furcata by LepIndex,[1] and as furcatus by TOLWeb. Savela gives it as furcatus without appropriate reference for the change. Accordingly it is being retained as furcata, with furcatus as redirect, pending the availability of a proper reference.

Cited references

  1. ^ a b Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Choaspes hemixanthus ssp. furcata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  2. ^ a b Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera - page on genus Choaspes.
  3. ^ TOL web page on genus Choaspes
  4. ^ Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 321, ser no I4.5.

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