Tagiades menaka

Spotted snow flat
	In Hong Kong
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Tagiades
Species:	T. menaka
Binomial name
	Tagiades menaka; (Moore, 1867)
Synonyms
	Pterygospidea menaka Moore, 1867; Tagiades manis Evans, 1934 ; Tagiades vulturna Plötz, 1884; Tagiades menaka gavina Fruhstorfer, 1910;

Tagiades menaka, commonly known as the spotted snow flat or the dark-edged snow flat, is a species of spread-winged skipper butterflies. It contains three subspecies.[1]

Tagiades menaka manis

Found in the Himalayas from Kashmir to Assam, and Burma

Tagiades menaka mantra Evans, 1934

Found in the northwest Himalayas, Burma, Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, and Hainan, southern China

Tagiades menaka menaka Evans, 1934

T. m. vajuna from Kanara, India has been transferred to the species Tagiades litigiosa. T. m. var. formosana and T. m. var. cohaerens of southern China and Taiwan, has been reclassified as Tagiades cohaerens.[1][2]

References

Markku Savela. "Tagiades Hübner, 1819". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
Yu-Feng Hsu; Hideyuki Chiba; Ying-Chuan Yang; Hiroshi Tsukiyama; Ping-Shih Yang & Shou-Ming Wang (2006). "A Taxonomic Review of the Taiwanese Skippers Described by Shonen Matsumura (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)" (PDF). Zoological Studies. 45 (3): 322–338.

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[sav-1] Markku Savela. "Tagiades Hübner, 1819". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved August 6, 2012.

[zool-2] Yu-Feng Hsu; Hideyuki Chiba; Ying-Chuan Yang; Hiroshi Tsukiyama; Ping-Shih Yang & Shou-Ming Wang (2006). "A Taxonomic Review of the Taiwanese Skippers Described by Shonen Matsumura (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)" (PDF). Zoological Studies. 45 (3): 322–338.