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Taxiles Skipper (Lon taxiles)

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Lon taxiles
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Lon
Species:
L. taxiles
Binomial name
Lon taxiles
(W. H. Edwards, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Poanes taxiles

Lon taxiles, the taxiles skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the family Hesperiidae.[1][2] It is found in Central America and North America.[2]

The MONA or Hodges number for Lon taxiles is 4061.[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Poanes taxiles Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  2. ^ a b "Poanes taxiles Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  3. ^ Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. (2016). Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
  4. ^ "A Catalog of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, J.P. Pelham, rev. 2017". Butterflies of America. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  • Hodges, Ronald W., et al., eds. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico, xxiv + 284.
  • Opler, Paul A. (1999). A Field Guide to Western Butterflies, Second Edition, xiv + 540.
  • Pelham, Jonathan P. (2008). "A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature". Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, vol. 40, xiv + 658.

Further reading[edit]

  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.