Choaspes xanthopogon

Similar awlking
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Choaspes
Species: C. xanthopogon
Binomial name
Choaspes xanthopogon
(Kollar, 1844)[1]

Choaspes xanthopogon,[2][3] the similar awlking,[4] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

Range

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

Status

William Harry Evans wrote that the taxon similis is rare. Taxon similis is a synonym for xanthopogon, see previous notes.[5]

Cited references

  1. Card for Choaspes xanthopogon in LepIndex. Accessed 12 October 2007.
  2. 1 2 Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera - page on genus Choaspes.
  3. TOL web page on genus Choaspes
  4. The common name Similar Awlking is that of taxon similis (vide Evans (1932)) which is not recognised as a valid species by Savela and by TOLWeb (ref its page on genus Choaspes). Taxon similis is now considered to be a synonym of taxon xanthopogon.
  5. As per Evans,(Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 320-321, ser no I 4.2.

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