Stub-tailed Skipper

Niconiades xanthaphes

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae

Fifty-five species of butterflies have been officially recorded in Dominica, an island-nation in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. Two species are endemic to Dominica: the Dominican hairstreak (Electrostrymon dominicana) and the Dominican snout (Libytheana fulvescens). An additional seven species are endemic to the Lesser Antilles: Godman's hairstreak (Allosmaitia piplea), bronze hairstreak (Electrostrymon angerona), Godman's leaf (Memphis dominicana), St Lucia mestra (Mestra cana), lesser whirlabout (Polites dictynna), broken dash skipper (Wallengrenia ophites), and the stub-tailed skipper…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Diogo Luiz, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Diogo Luiz · CC-BY DescriptionList of butterflies of Dominica, Wikipedia contributors

Stub-tailed Skipper

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