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Agathymus
Sign in to saveAgathymus is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae. They occur in the North American deserts. The genus was described by Hugh Avery Freeman in 1959. The larvae bore into the stems of agave plants.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 26
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Collections
- YPM, ANSP, EMEC, UMNH, NMMNHS, MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM (MPM)
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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- GIANT-SKIPPER, ARIZONA (Agathymus aryxna) (10-17-13) base of lower humboldt cyn, patagonia mts, scc, az -03 (10335951346).jpg
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Agathymus is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae. They occur in the North American deserts. The genus was described by Hugh Avery Freeman in 1959. The larvae bore into the stems of agave plants.
These butterflies have been treated as members of the disputed skipper subfamily Megathyminae, but are also considered sufficiently distinct to be in their own family, Megathymidae, along with the genera Megathymus and Stallingsia.
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