Coladenia

Coladenia is an Oriental genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae. They are found throughout most of Southern, Southeastern, and Eastern Asia. The genus contains the following fifteen species:[1][2][3]

  • Coladenia agnioides Elwes & Edwards, 1897 - found in Assam, Nepal, Burma, Laos, Langkawi, the Malay Peninsula, and possibly southern China
  • Coladenia buchananii (de Nicéville, 1889)
  • Coladenia hoenei Evans, 1939 - found in northern Thailand
  • Coladenia igna (Semper, 1892)
  • Coladenia indrani tissa Moore, [1881] - found in Sri Lanka
  • Coladenia indrani uposatha Fruhstorfer, 1910 - found in Burma, Thailand, and Laos
  • Coladenia laxmi laxmi - found in Burma and northern Thailand
  • Coladenia laxmi sobrina Elwes & Edwards, 1897 - found in southern Burma, Thailand, Laos, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Tioman, Sumatra, and Hainan
  • Coladenia maeniata Oberthür, 1896 - found in Yunnan, China
  • Coladenia minor Chiba, 1991 - endemic to the Philippines
  • Coladenia nankoshana (Shimonoya & Murayama, 1976) - found in Taiwan
  • Coladenia ochracea de Jong & Treadaway, 1992 - endemic to the Philippines
  • Coladenia palawana (Staudinger, 1889) - found in Sumatra, Bali, Borneo, and Palawan. Possibly also to the rest of the Philippines but probably misidentification with C. similis
  • Coladenia semperi Elwes & Edwards, 1897 - endemic to the Philippines
  • Coladenia sheila Evans, 1939 - found in China
  • Coladenia similis de Jong & Treadaway, 1992 - endemic to the Philippines
  • Coladenia tanya Devyatkin, 2002 - found in central Vietnam
  • Coladenia uemurai Huang, 2003 - found in Yunnan
  • Coladenia vitrea (Leech, 1894) - found in China
  • Coladenia dan fulvescens Elwes & Edwards, 1897, Coladenia agnioides Elwes & Edwards, 1897 and Coladenia laxmi sobrina in Elwes & Edwards, 1897 A Revision of the Oriental Hesperiidae
  • Coladenia laxmi (de Nicéville, [1889]) in Lionel de Nicéville, 1891 On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region
  • Coladenia buchananii in Seitz

Coladenia
Coladenia indrani from Kerala, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Subfamily:
Pyrginae
Tribe:
Tagiadini
Genus:
Coladenia

Moore, 1881

References
  1. Markku Savela. "Coladenia Moore, [1881]". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
  2. R. de Jong & C.G. Treadway (1992). "Revisional notes on Coladenia Moore, 1881 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)". Zoologische Mededelingen. 66: 283–293.
  3. with four species restricted to ChinaFunet


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