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Tagiades japetus titus
Tagiades japetus (Stoll, 1781), commonly known as Pied Flat or Common Snow Flat, is a species of spread-winged skipper butterflies, family Hesperiidae. Philippines harbors only one endemic subspecies: Tagiades japetus titus (Plotz, 1884) also called the Philippine Common Snow Flat Butterfly. Recorded hostplant is Ipomoea batatas (Sweet potato/Kamote, Convolvulaceae). See also notes in this related spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/160....
Backyard.
References: http://old.hkbutterfly.org/fieldtr/DRLEE..., http://old.hkbutterfly.org/fieldtr/PHIL0..., http://pbh-butterflies.yolasite.com/phil..., http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/discovernat..., http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/docum....
Spotted on Dec 6, 2012
Submitted on Dec 6, 2012
4 Comments
Thanks Adi!
Beautiful!
Thanks Leana. Made it the cover pic ;)
Love the last photo Agnes!