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
Choaspes estrella de Jong, 1980 Philippines
Choaspes hemixanthus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Sulawesi, Halamahera, New Guinea
Choaspes illuensis New Guinea
Choaspes plateni
Choaspes stigmata Evans, 1932
Choaspes subcaudata
''Choaspes xanthopogon''

Etymology

Presumably from Greek 2=choaspes, masculine proper noun, from the river Karkheh or Karkhen in Khūzestān Province Andimeshk city, Iran. It is mentioned as Choaspes by Pliny.