Tagiades nestus
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Tagiades |
Species: | T. nestus
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Binomial name | |
Tagiades nestus (Felder, 1860)
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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
[edit]- Tagiades nestus nestus
- Tagiades nestus sivoa Swinhoe, 1904 (New Guinea)
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