Coladenia Explained

Coladenia is an Oriental genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae. They are found throughout most of Southern, Southeastern, and Eastern Asia.

Species

The genus contains the following fifteen species:^{[1] [2] [3]}

• Coladenia agni (de Nicéville, [1884])

• Coladenia agni agni (de Nicéville, [1884]) - found in Sikkim, Burma, Thailand, and Hainan

• Coladenia agni sundae de Jong & Treadaway, 1992 - found in Sumatra

• 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 igna igna (Semper, 1892) - found in the Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Taiwan, and the Malay Peninsula

• Coladenia igna marinda de Jong & Treadaway, 1992 - found in Marinduque, Philippines

• Coladenia indrani (Moore, [1866]) - found in southern India to Bengal, Mussoorie to Sikkim, and Burma

• Coladenia indrani tissa Moore, [1881] - found in Sri Lanka

• Coladenia indrani uposatha Fruhstorfer, 1910 - found in Burma, Thailand, and Laos

• Coladenia kehelatha (Hewitson, 1878) - found in Sulawesi and the Sula Islands of Indonesia

• Coladenia laxmi (de Nicéville, [1889])

• 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: Sichuan, Shaanxi^[4]

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Coladenia Moore, [1881]]. Markku Savela. Lepidoptera and some other life forms. 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
4. Huang . Hao . New or little known butterflies from China - 2 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae) . Atalanta . July 2016 . 47 . 1–2 . 163 . 8 September 2022 . Deutschen Forschungszentrale für Schmetterlingswanderungen.