Pythonides lancea
Appearance
Pythonides lancea | |
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Pythonides lancea observed in Brazil in 2018 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Pythonides |
Species: | P. lancea
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Binomial name | |
Pythonides lancea (Hewitson, 1868)
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Pythonides lancea is a species of butterfly in the skipper family, found in Brazil and in Argentina.[1][2]
Pythonides lancea was first described in 1868 by William Chapman Hewitson and named Leucochitonea lancea, after realizing this species was different from P. jovianus previously described by Pieter Cramer.[3]
Gallery
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P. jovianus (L,M) in a plate from Cramer & Stoll (1782).
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P. lancea from Hübner & Geyer (1908).
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P. jovianus observed in Cacoal, Brazil.
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P. lancea observed in Guarapiranga, Brazil.
References
[edit]- ^ Mielke, OHH; Emery, EDO; Pinheiro, CEG (2008). "The butterflies Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera, Hesperioidea) from the Federal District, Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Entomology. 52 (2): 283–288 – via Researchgate.
- ^ Núñez Bustos, Ezequiel O. (2009). "Daytime butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea Y Hesperioidea) from the Iguazu National Park, Misiones Province, Argentina". Tropical Lepidoptera Research. 19 (2): 71–81.
- ^ Hewitson, William Chapman (1868). Descriptions of one hundred new species of Hesperidae. London: John Van Voorst. p. 47.