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Turner's Giant-Skipper

Turnerina mejicanus

Classification

Class
Insecta

Turnerina mejicanus, sometimes referred to as the Mexican giant skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae, subfamily Hesperiinae. It is one of three species in the genus Turnerina Freeman, 1959, and is known only from a small number of specimens collected in the Mexican state of Durango in the early twentieth century. Taxonomy The species was first described by E.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog