Species of butterfly
Tagiades nestus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Tagiades
Species:
T. nestus
Binomial name
Tagiades nestus (Felder, 1860)
Synonyms
List
Pterygospidea nestus C. Felder, 1860
Tagiades curiosa Swinhoe, 1905
Tagiades monachus Fruhstorfer, 1910
Tagiades curatus Fruhstorfer, 1910
Tagiades swinhoei Fruhstorfer, 1910
Tagiades suffusus Rothschild, 1915
Tagiades neira var. metanga Ribbe, 1889
Tagiades korela Mabille, 1891
Tagiades sivoa Swinhoe, 1904
Tagiades nestus , the Papuan snow flat or Nestus flat , is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae . It is found on the Australian islands in the Torres Strait and in New Guinea .
Its wingspan is about 40 mm.
Its larvae feed on Dioscorea species.
Subspecies
Tagiades nestus nestus
Tagiades nestus sivoa Swinhoe, 1904 (New Guinea)
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