Choaspes furcata

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| taxon = Choaspes furcata

| authority = Evans, 1932{{LepIndex |id=182427 |name=Choaspes hemixanthus ssp. furcata}} Retrieved April 19, 2018.

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Choaspes furcata,Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera - page on genus [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/coeliadinae/choaspes/index.html Choaspes.]TOL web page on genus [http://www.tolweb.org/Choaspes/94261 Choaspes] the hooked awlking,{{efn|The species is considered to be furcata by LepIndex, and as furcatus by [http://www.tolweb.org/Choaspes/94261 TOLWeb]. [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/coeliadinae/choaspes/index.html 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.}} 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.

Status

William Harry Evans had considered this taxon as a subspecies of plateni and given its status in India as rare.{{cite book |last=Evans |first1=W.H. |authorlink=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932 |page=321, ser no I4.5 }}

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References

Print

  • {{cite book |last=Evans |first1=W.H. |authorlink=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932 }}

Online

  • {{cite web |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/ |title=The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) |last1=Beccaloni |first1=George |last2=Scoble |first2=Malcolm |last3=Kitching |first3=Ian |last4=Simonsen |first4=Thomas |last5=Robinson |first5=Gaden |last6=Pitkin |first6=Brian |last7=Hine |first7=Adrian |last8=Lyal |first8=Chris |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=2016-10-15 }}
  • Brower, Andrew V. Z., (2007). Choaspes Moore 1881. Version 21 February 2007 (under construction). Page on [http://tolweb.org/Choaspes/94261/2007.02.21 genus Choaspes] in The Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/.
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ |title=Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera }}.

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Category:Coeliadinae

Category:Fauna of Pakistan

Category:Butterflies of Asia

Category:Butterflies described in 1832

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