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Black Angle
Tapena thwaitesi
Tapena is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae subfamily Pyrginae. The single species is Tapena thwaitesi, the black angle. The species is named after G. H. K. Thwaites, the director of the botanical garden at Peradeniya, Sri Lanka between 1849 and 1880.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 320252.