Astraptes is the genus of flasher butterflies. They belong to the skipper butterfly subfamily Eudaminae, which was long included with the spread-winged skippers (Pyrginae) as a tribe. They are found in the Nearctic and Neotropical ecozones.
Species include:
Astraptes alardus (Stoll, 1790) – frosted flasher – Mexico to Colombia, BrazilA. alardus alardus Suriname, VenezuelaA. alardus habana (Lucas, 1857) CubaA. alardus heriul (Mabille & Boullet, 1912) Dominican RepublicA. alardus latia Evans, 1952 Mexico, Costa RicaA. alardus aquila Evans, 1952 ColombiaAstraptes alector (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Gilbert's flasherA. alector alector ColombiaA. alector hopfferi (Plötz, 1881) Mexico, Central America, PeruAstraptes anaphus (Cramer, [1777]) – yellow-tipped flasher – South America, Greater Antilles to south TexasA. anaphus anaphus Suriname, Brazil (Bahia)A. anaphus anausis (Godman & Salvin, 1896) St. Vincent, Grenada, Dominica, Hispaniola, Cuba, JamaicaA. anaphus aniza Evans, 1952 PeruA. anaphus annetta Evans, 1952 Mexico, Costa RicaA. anaphus anoma Evans, 1952 TrinidadAstraptes apastus (Cramer, [1777]) Guiana, Guyane , Brazil, Peru, Trinidad, MexicoA. apastus apastus SurinameA. apastus pusa Evans, 1952 Brazil (Bahia)Astraptes aulus (Plötz, 1881) Panama to BrazilAstraptes brevicauda (Plötz, 1886) Belize, Panama, Nicaragua, PeruAstraptes cassander (Fabricius, 1793) Cuba, Costa RicaAstraptes chiriquensis (Staudinger, 1876) Panama to ColombiaA. chiriquensis chiriquensis Mexico, Panama, NicaraguaA. chiriquensis meretrix (Hewitson, 1876) EcuadorA. chiriquensis oenander (Hewitson, 1876) Brazil (Pará)A. chiriquensis erana Evans, 1952 EcuadorAstraptes cretatus (Hayward, 1939)A. cretatus cretatus Ecuador, Brazil (Amazonas)A. cretatus adoba Evans, 1952 Brazil (Espírito Santo)Astraptes creteus (Cramer, [1780]) Mexico to Amazon BrazilA. creteus creteus SurinameA. creteus siges (Mabille, 1903) BrazilA. creteus crana Evans, 1952 south Mexico to GuatemalaA. creteus crilla Evans, 1952 EcuadorA. creteus cyprus Evans, 1952 BoliviaAstraptes egregius (Butler, 1870) – small-spotted flasher – Mexico to Colombia, TrinidadA. egregius egregiusA. egregius coxeyi (Williams, 1931) EcuadorAstraptes elorus (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, ArgentinaAstraptes enotrus (Stoll, [1781]) Guiana, Guyane, Suriname, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, TrinidadAstraptes erycina (Plötz, 1881) BrazilAstraptes fulgerator – two-barred flasher – south Texas, Mexico to Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, TrinidadA. fulgerator fulgerator Suriname, PeruA. fulgerator azul Reakirt, [1867]) Texas, Mexico, BoliviaAstraptes fulgor Hayward, 1939) ArgentinaAstraptes galesus (Mabille, 1888)A. galesus galesus Peru, EcuadorA. galesus cassius Evans, 1952 Costa RicaAstraptes halesius (Hewitson, 1877) French Guiana, PeruAstraptes jaira (Butler, 1870) West Indies, JamaicaAstraptes janeira (Schaus, 1902) Brazil, Suriname, Colombia, ParaguayAstraptes latimargo (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)A. latimargo latimargo PanamaA. latimargo bifascia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)A. latimargo tinda Evans, 1952 Brazil (Pará)Astraptes mabillei Steinhauser, 1989 BoliviaAstraptes megalurus (Mabille, 1877) Mexico, Guatemala, ColombiaAstraptes naxos (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil, ColombiaAstraptes palliolum (Druce, 1908) Costa RicaAstraptes phalaecus (Godman & Salvin, [1893]) Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa RicaAstraptes talus (Cramer, [1777]) Central America to Brazil, Suriname, CubaAstraptes tucuti (Williams, 1927) Mexico, PanamaAstraptes xagua (Lucas, 1857)A. xagua xagua CubaA. xagua christyis (Sharpe, 1898) Dominican Republic