Tagiades trebellius

Tagiades trebellius

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Tagiades
Species:	T. trebellius
Binomial name
*Tagiades trebellius* (Hopffer, 1874)^[1]
Synonyms
Pterygospidea trebellius Hopffer, 1874 Tagiades mitra avathana Fruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades martinus nicaja Fruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades sivoa canonicus Fruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades persimilis Rothschild, 1916

Tagiades trebellius is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family (subfamily Pyrginae).

Subspecies

T. t. trebellius (Sulawesi)
T. t. sem Mabille, 1883 (Sangihe, Talaud)
T. t. martinus Plötz, 1884 (Japan)
T. t. neira Plötz, 1885
T. t. mitra Mabille, 1895 (Sula Islands)
T. t. canonicus Fruhstorfer, 1910 (New Guinea)

Tagiades trebellius martinus larvae feed on Dioscorea alata, D. cirrhosa (Dioscoreaceae).^[2]

References

↑ Tagiades, funet.fi
↑ Taro Iwase , 1964 Recent foodplant records of the Loochooan butterflies Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 1964:105-109

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