# Tagiades

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***Tagiades***, commonly known as **snow flats**, is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [spread-winged](/source/Pyrginae) [skipper butterflies](/source/Skipper_butterflies). It is the [type genus](/source/Type_genus) of the [tribe](/source/Tribe_(biology)) [Tagiadini](/source/Tagiadini) of the [subfamily](/source/Subfamily) [Pyrginae](/source/Pyrginae) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Hesperiidae](/source/Hesperiidae). It contains seventeen [species](/source/Species); three are found in tropical Africa, while fourteen are found from India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, northeast Australia, to the [Pacific Islands](/source/Pacific_Islands). They are primarily [diurnal](/source/Diurnality) butterflies, and can usually be found in [secondary forests](/source/Secondary_forest) at up to 1,300 m (4,300 ft) [above sea level](/source/Above_sea_level). They can sometimes be encountered in partially cleared or cultivated areas. They are fast flyers, flying at an average height of 2 to 6 m (6.6 to 19.7 ft). They usually rest on the undersides of leaves. When disturbed they will fly away but will usually return to the preferred area, often to the same leaf.[2]

## Species

- *[Tagiades atticus](/source/Tagiades_atticus)* (Fabricius, 1793)
- *[Tagiades calligana](/source/Tagiades_calligana)* Butler, [1879] – Thailand, Malaysia, [Sumatra](/source/Sumatra), Singapore, [Borneo](/source/Borneo), [Java](/source/Java), [Nias](/source/Nias), [Belitung](/source/Belitung), and [Bangka Island](/source/Bangka_Island)
- *[Tagiades ceylonica](/source/Tagiades_ceylonica)* Evans, 1932
- *[Tagiades cohaerens](/source/Tagiades_cohaerens)* Mabille, 1914 – Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, the northwestern Himalayas, and possibly China
- *[Tagiades elegans](/source/Tagiades_elegans)* Mabille, 1877
- *[Tagiades flesus](/source/Tagiades_flesus)* (Fabricius, 1781) (clouded forester) – [Transkei](/source/Transkei) to Zimbabwe and Botswana in Africa
- *[Tagiades gana](/source/Tagiades_gana)* (Moore, [1866]) (large snow flat) – widespread in India, [Indochina](/source/Indochina), and maritime Southeast Asia
- *[Tagiades hovia](/source/Tagiades_hovia)* Swinhoe, 1904
- *[Tagiades hybridus](/source/Tagiades_hybridus)* Devyatkin, 2001 – central Vietnam
- *[Tagiades inconspicua](/source/Tagiades_inconspicua)* Rothschild, 1915
- *[Tagiades insularis](/source/Tagiades_insularis)* Mabille, 1876 – Madagascar
- *[Tagiades janetta](/source/Tagiades_janetta)* Butler, 1870
- *[Tagiades japetus](/source/Tagiades_japetus)* (Stoll, [1781]) (pied flat or common snow flat) – widespread in India, Indochina, maritime Southeast Asia, and north-eastern Australia
- *[Tagiades kina](/source/Tagiades_kina)* Evans, 1934
- *[Tagiades korela](/source/Tagiades_korela)* Mabille, 1891
- *[Tagiades lavata](/source/Tagiades_lavata)* Butler, [1879] – southern Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and the [Natuna Islands](/source/Natuna_Islands)
- *[Tagiades litigiosa](/source/Tagiades_litigiosa)* Möschler, 1878 (water snow flat) – Sri Lanka, southern India, [Assam](/source/Assam), the Himalayas, and Indochina
- *[Tagiades martinus](/source/Tagiades_martinus)* Plötz, 1884
- *[Tagiades menaka](/source/Tagiades_menaka)* (Moore, [1866]) (dark edged snow flat or spotted snow flat) – Himalayas (from [Kashmir](/source/Kashmir) to Assam), Indochina, and Hainan
- *[Tagiades neira](/source/Tagiades_neira)* Plötz, 1885
- *[Tagiades nestus](/source/Tagiades_nestus)* (C. Felder, 1860) (Papuan snow flat) – Papua New Guinea, the [Duke of York Island](/source/Duke_of_York_Island,_Papua_New_Guinea), and northern Australia
- *[Tagiades obscurus](/source/Tagiades_obscurus)* Mabille, 1876
- *[Tagiades parra](/source/Tagiades_parra)* Fruhstorfer, 1910 – Indochina and maritime Southeast Asia
- *[Tagiades presbyter](/source/Tagiades_presbyter)* Butler, 1882
- *[Tagiades ravi](/source/Tagiades_ravi)* (Moore, [1866])
- *[Tagiades sambavana](/source/Tagiades_sambavana)* Elwes and Edwards, 1897
- *[Tagiades samborana](/source/Tagiades_samborana)* Grose-Smith, 1891 – Madagascar
- *[Tagiades sem](/source/Tagiades_sem)* Mabille, 1883
- *[Tagiades sheba](/source/Tagiades_sheba)* Evans, 1934
- *[Tagiades silvia](/source/Tagiades_silvia)* Evans, 1934
- *[Tagiades titus](/source/Tagiades_titus)* Plötz, 1884
- *[Tagiades tethys](/source/Tagiades_tethys)* (Ménétries, 1857) – eastern Asia including Japan, Taiwan and Korea
- *[Tagiades toba](/source/Tagiades_toba)* de Nicéville, [1896] – Assam to maritime Southeast Asia
- *[Tagiades trebellius](/source/Tagiades_trebellius)* (Hopffer, 1874) – Japan, the Philippines, and [Sulawesi](/source/Sulawesi) and the surrounding islands
- *[Tagiades tubulus](/source/Tagiades_tubulus)* Fruhstorfer, 1910
- *[Tagiades ultra](/source/Tagiades_ultra)* Evans, 1932 – Indochina, maritime Southeast Asia, to [Palawan](/source/Palawan) in the Philippines
- *[Tagiades waterstradti](/source/Tagiades_waterstradti)* Elwes & Edwards, 1897 – maritime Southeast Asia

## References

1. [*Tagiades*](http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/tagiades/index.html), funet.fi

1. Rienk de Jong & Colin Guy Treadaway (1993). ["The Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) of the Philippines"](http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/148859). *Zoologische Verhandelingen*. **288**: 3–125.

## External links

- [Tagiades at funet](https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/tagiades/index.html)

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