Tagiades trebellius

Tagiades trebellius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Tagiades
Species:	T. trebellius
Binomial name
Tagiades trebellius (Hopffer, 1874)[1]
Synonyms
Pterygospidea trebellius Hopffer, 1874 Tagiades mitra avathana Fruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades martinus nicaja Fruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades sivoa canonicus Fruhstorfer, 1910 Tagiades persimilis Rothschild, 1916

Tagiades trebellius is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family (subfamily Pyrginae).

Subspecies

• T. t. trebellius (Sulawesi)
• T. t. sem Mabille, 1883 (Sangihe, Talaud)
• T. t. martinus Plötz, 1884 (Japan)
• T. t. neira Plötz, 1885
• T. t. mitra Mabille, 1895 (Sula Islands)
• T. t. canonicus Fruhstorfer, 1910 (New Guinea)

Tagiades trebellius martinus larvae feed on Dioscorea alata, D. cirrhosa (Dioscoreaceae).^[2]

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