Andean longtail

Urbanus elmina

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae

Urbanus is a genus of skipper butterflies erected by Jacob Hübner in 1807, placed to subtribe Eudamina. Species of the genus are found from the southern United States to South America. Taxonomy The genus has been subject to several revisions, one of which led to the type genus of subfamily Eudaminae, genus Eudamus, becoming a junior synonym of Urbanus.

Distribution

Andean longtail — (c) Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Sources and credits

Photo(c) Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionUrbanus (butterfly), Wikipedia contributors

Andean longtail

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