Cymaenes tripunctus
Species of butterfly
Cymaenes tripunctus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Cymaenes |
Species: | C. tripunctus |
Binomial name | |
Cymaenes tripunctus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865) | |
Synonyms | |
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Cymaenes tripunctus, known generally as the three-spotted skipper or dingy dotted skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, North America, and South America.[1][2][3]
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Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species Cymaenes tripunctus:
- Cymaenes tripunctus theogenis Capronnier, 1874
- Cymaenes tripunctus tripunctus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865)
References
Further reading
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
External links
Media related to Cymaenes tripunctus at Wikimedia Commons
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