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Tagiades litigiosa (Water Snow Flat)

Synonyms: Tagiades eson; Tagiades kotoshona; Tagiades vajuna

Wikipedia Abstract

Tagiades litigiosa, the water snow flat, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India. The larvae feed on Dioscorea oppositifolia, Dioscorea alata and Smilax species.
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Infraspecies

Tagiades litigiosa andamanica
Tagiades litigiosa ceylonica
Tagiades litigiosa litigiosa
Tagiades litigiosa sambavana
Tagiades litigiosa tubulus
Tagiades litigiosa ultra

Prey / Diet

Dioscorea alata (water yam)[1]
Dioscorea cirrhosa[2]
Dioscorea fordii[2]
Dioscorea oppositifolia (Chinese yam)[2]

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.
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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