Tagiades: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Tagiades
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Tagiades
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tagiades
Tagiades, commonly known as snow flats, is a genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies. It is the type genus of the tribe Tagiadini of the subfamily Pyrginae in the family Hesperiidae. It contains seventeen species; three are found in tropical Africa, while fourteen are found from India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, northeast Australia, to the Pacific Islands. They are primarily diurnal butterflies, and can usually be found in secondary forests at up to 1,300 m (4,300 ft) above sea level. They can sometimes be encountered in partially cleared or cultivated areas. They are fast flyers, flying at an average height of 2 to 6 m (6.6 to 19.7 ft). They usually rest on the undersides of leaves. When disturbed they will fly away but will usually return to the preferred area, often to the same leaf.
...Tagiades in languages:
- English
- Snow Flats
- Japanese
- シロシタセセリ属
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Tagiades calligana
- Tagiades cohaerens
- Tagiades eson
- Tagiades flesus
- Tagiades gana
- Tagiades insularis
- Tagiades japetus
- Tagiades lavata
- Tagiades litigiosa
- Tagiades menaka
- Tagiades nestus
- Tagiades obscurus
- Tagiades parra
- Tagiades samborana
- Tagiades striata
- Tagiades tethys
- Tagiades toba
- Tagiades trebellius
- Tagiades ultra
- Tagiades vajuna
- Tagiades waterstradti































































































































































