- Source: Choaspes (butterfly)
Choaspes is an Indomalayan realm and Australasian realm genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. They are the only skippers with strongly hairy eyes.
Species
Choaspes adhara Fruhstorfer, 1911
Choaspes benjaminii (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
Choaspes estrella de Jong, 1980 Philippines
Choaspes hemixanthus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Sulawesi, Halamahera, New Guinea
Choaspes illuensis (Ribbe, 1900) New Guinea
Choaspes plateni (Staudinger, 1888)
Choaspes stigmata Evans, 1932
Choaspes subcaudata (C. & R. Felder, [1867])
Choaspes xanthopogon (Kollar, [1844])
Etymology
Presumably from Greek choaspes (Χοάσπης [=Khoáspēs]), masculune proper noun, from the river Karkheh or Karkhen in Khūzestān Province Andimeshk city, Iran (ancient Susiana). It is mentioned as Choaspes by Pliny.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
External links
Media related to Choaspes at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Choaspes (butterfly) at Wikispecies
Choaspes at funet
Images representing Choaspes at Encyclopedia of Life
Images representing Choaspes at Consortium for the Barcode of Life