Tapena
| Black angle | |
|---|---|
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Pyrginae |
| Tribe: | Tagiadini |
| Genus: | Tapena Moore, 1881 |
| Species: | T. thwaitesi |
| Binomial name | |
| Tapena thwaitesi (Moore, 1881)[1][2] | |
Tapena is a monotypic genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae subfamily Pyrginae. The single species is Tapena thwaitesi,[3] the black angle.[4] The species is named after G. H. K. Thwaites, the director of the botanical garden at Peradeniya, Sri Lanka between 1849 and 1880.
Description
Male has the upperside dark purple brown, with blackish outer margins and indistinct discal transverse band of spots; forewing with two small translucent white spots on the costa near the apex. Underside dark purple brown.
Female has the upper and underside greyish purple brown, transverse band of spots and outer border dark purple brown; forewing with three small semi-diaphanous white subapical spots, the lowest transversely narrow, two spots also at end of the cell, the upper one very slender, and two spots on the disc, each series being bordered by the dark band; hindwing with a semi-diaphanous spot at end of the cell.[5]
Subspecies
Two subspecies are classified under Tapena thwaitesi, they are:
- T. t. bornea' Evans, 1941 - Southern Vietnam, Thailand, Langkawi, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Palawan[6]
- T. t. minuscula Elwes & Edwards, 1897 - Burma, Thailand, Laos[7]
Gallery
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Dry-season form
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Wet-season form
References
- ↑ Card for Tapena thwaitesi in LepIndex. Accessed 12 October 2007.
- ↑ Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. I, p. 181, pi. 67.
- ↑ Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera. Page on genus Tapena.
- ↑ TOL web page on genus Tapena thwaitesi
- ↑ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Vest and Co. Madras.
- ↑ Y. Inayoshi (1996–2014). "Tapena thwaitesi bornea Evans,1931". A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ↑ Y. Inayoshi (1996–2014). "Tapena thwaitesi minuscula Elwes & Edwards,1897". A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China. Retrieved 27 September 2015.