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Choaspes (butterfly)

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