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Chioides

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Chioides is a mainly Neotropical genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae)

Species

White-striped Longtail

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyHesperiidae
Observations6,408
Observations recorded10,514

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
1
Family
Hesperiidae
Collections
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM (MPM)
Recorded in
Ecuador

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Image
Chioides albofasciatus Costa Rica.jpg
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Commons category
Chioides
taxon name
Chioides
taxon rank
genus
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Encyclopedic overview

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Chioides is a mainly Neotropical genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae)

They range from the south-western United States to Argentina and there are several Antillean endemic species. They are robust and have hindwing "tails".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chioides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.