Choaspes (butterfly)

Choaspes is an Indomalayan realm and Australasian realm genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. They are the only skippers with strongly hairy eyes.

Species

 * Choaspes adhara Fruhstorfer, 1911
 * Choaspes benjaminii (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
 * Choaspes estrella de Jong, 1980 Philippines
 * Choaspes hemixanthus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 Sulawesi, Halamahera, New Guinea
 * Choaspes illuensis (Ribbe, 1900) New Guinea
 * Choaspes plateni (Staudinger, 1888)
 * Choaspes stigmata Evans, 1932
 * Choaspes subcaudata (C. & R. Felder, [1867])
 * Choaspes xanthopogon (Kollar, [1844])

Etymology
Presumably from Greek, masculune proper noun, from the river Karkheh or Karkhen in Khūzestān Province Andimeshk city, Iran (ancient Susiana). It is mentioned as Choaspes by Pliny.