Choaspes furcata,[1] [2] the hooked awlking, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
The hooked awlking ranges in India along the Himalayas from Kashmir to Nepal, Sikkim and Assam onto Myanmar and western China and possibly Borneo.[1]
William Harry Evans had considered this taxon as a subspecies of plateni and given its status in India as rare.[3]
. W.H. . William Harry Evans . The Identification of Indian Butterflies . 2nd . Mumbai, India . . 1932 .
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. W.H. . William Harry Evans . The Identification of Indian Butterflies . 2nd . Mumbai, India . . 1932 . 321, ser no I4.5 .