Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae > Choaspes > Choaspes benjaminii

Choaspes benjaminii (Indian Awlking)

Synonyms: Hesperia benjaminii

Wikipedia Abstract

Choaspes benjaminii, the Indian awlking, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. The species is named after Benjamin Delessert and was described on the basis of a specimen collected by Adolphe Delessert in the Nilgiris.
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Infraspecies

Choaspes benjaminii benjaminii
Choaspes benjaminii formosana
Choaspes benjaminii japonica
Choaspes benjaminii pallida

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Pittosporum tobira (Japanese cheesewood)[1]
Reynoutria japonica (Japanese knotweed)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0