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Snow Flats
Tagiades
Tagiades, commonly known as snow flats, is a genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies. It is the type genus of the tribe Tagiadini of the subfamily Pyrginae in the family Hesperiidae. It contains seventeen species; three of which are found in tropical Africa, while fourteen are found from India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, northeast Australia, to the Pacific Islands. They are primarily diurnal butterflies, and can usually be found in secondary forests at up to 1,300 m (4,300 ft)...
22 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Water Snow Flat
speciesTagiades litigiosa
Pied Flat
speciesTagiades japetus
White-banded Flat
speciesTagiades tethys
Suffused Snow Flat
speciesTagiades gana
Clouded Flat
speciesTagiades flesus
Dark-edged Snow Flat
speciesTagiades menaka
Ultra Snow Flat
speciesTagiades ultra
Tagiades trebellius
speciesTagiades trebellius
White-striped Snow Flat
speciesTagiades cohaerens
Mascarene Clouded Flat
speciesTagiades insularis
Malayan Snow Flat
speciesTagiades calligana
Straight Snow Flat
speciesTagiades parra
Different-spotted Snow Flat
speciesTagiades toba
Papuan Snow Flat
speciesTagiades nestus
Waterstradt Snow Flat
speciesTagiades waterstradti
Tagiades lavata
speciesTagiades lavata
Water Snow Flat
speciesTagiades vajuna
Tagiades eson
speciesTagiades eson
Tagiades samborana
speciesTagiades samborana
Tagiades striata
speciesTagiades striata
Tagiades obscurus
speciesTagiades obscurus
Tagiades kina
speciesTagiades kina
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 141633.