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Myscelus is a Neotropical genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyHesperiidae

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Specimen records
10
Family
Hesperiidae
Collections
UMNH, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, FMNH
Recorded in
Mexico, Brazil, United States

Wikidata facts

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taxon
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taxon name
Myscelus
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Myscelus
taxonomic type
Papilio nobilis
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Myscelus is a Neotropical genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

==Species== Myscelus amystis (Hewitson, 1867) Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil. Myscelus assaricus (Cramer, [1779]) Mexico, Panama, Bolivia, Suriname, Guyana, Guyane. Myscelus belti Godman & Salvin, 1879 Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama. Myscelus draudti Riley, 1926 Bolivia. Myscelus epimachia Herrich-Schäffer, 1869 Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil. Myscelus nobilis (Cramer, [1777]) Bolivia, Peru, Suriname. Myscelus pardalina (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil. Myscelus pegasus Mabille, 1903 Ecuador, Venezuela, French Guiana. Myscelus perissodora Dyar, 1914 Mexico, Colombia. Myscelus phoronis (Hewitson, 1867) Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru. Myscelus santhilarius (Latreille, [1824]) Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana.

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