Suastus minuta

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Erionotini
Genus: Suastus
Species: Suastus minuta
Subspecies: S. m. aditia –S. m. aditus –S. m. bipunctus –S. m. compactus –S. m. flemingi –S. m. minuta –S. m. scopas

Name

Suastus minuta Moore, 1877.

Type Locality: Sri Lanka; "Ceylon".

Holotype: male, BMNH.

Synonymy

• Tagiades minuta Moore, 1877: 343; Lepindex.
• Apaustus sinhalus Plotz, 1885: 228. Synonymy in Evans, 1949: 297.
• Suastus minuta minuta (Moore); Evans, 1949: 297.
• Suastus minutus minutus [sic] (Moore); Bridges, 1994: IX.65.

References

• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H., 1943. Revision of the Genus Suastus Moore (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Proceedings of the Royal entomological Society of London (B)12(7/8): 95–96. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix+502pp., 53 pls. BMNH, London. Reference page. 
• Moore, F., 1877b. Descriptions of Ceylon Lepidoptera. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 20: 339-347. Reference page. 
• Plötz, C. 1885. Neue Hesperiden des Indischen Archipels und Ost-Africa's aus der Collection des Herrn H. Ribbe. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 225–232. Reference page.