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 <small>Fruhstorfer, 1911</small>
- Choaspes benjaminii <small>(Guérin-Méneville, 1843)</small>
- Choaspes estrella <small>de Jong, 1980</small> Philippines
- Choaspes hemixanthus <small>Rothschild & Jordan, 1903</small> Sulawesi, Halamahera, New Guinea
- Choaspes illuensis <small>(Ribbe, 1900)</small> New Guinea
- Choaspes plateni <small>(Staudinger, 1888)</small>
- Choaspes stigmata <small>Evans, 1932</small>
- Choaspes subcaudata <small>(C. & R. Felder, [1867])</small>
- Choaspes xanthopogon <small>(Kollar, [1844])</small>
Etymology
Presumably from Greek , masculine proper noun, from the river Karkheh or Karkhen in KhÃ
«zestÃÂn Province Andimeshk city, Iran (ancient Susiana). It is mentioned as Choaspes by Pliny.
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