Tapena Explained

Tapena is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae subfamily Pyrginae.^[1]

Species

Recognised species in the genus Tapena include:^[2]

• Tapena bornea Evans, 1941 - Malaysia
• Tapena minuscula Elwes and Edwards, 1897 - Myanmar
• Tapena multiguttata de Nicéville, 1890 - Myanmar, Thailand
• Tapena thwaitesi (Moore, 1881) - Indo-China, Indonesia
• Tapena vasava (Moore, [1866]) - northern India, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and western China

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tapena Moore, 1881 . 2023-01-16 . www.gbif.org . en.
2. Zhang . Jing . Cong . Qian . Shen . Jinhui . Grishin . Nick . 2022-03-14 . Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) . Insecta Mundi . 2022 . 921 . 35370352 . 8975183 . en.