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Astraptes

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Kingdom
  
Subfamily
  
Phylum
  
Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Hesperiidae

Scientific name
  
Astraptes

Higher classification
  
Order
  
Butterflies and moths

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Lower classifications
  
Astraptes fulgerator, Astraptes anaphus

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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.

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Species include:

  • Astraptes alardus (Stoll, 1790) – frosted flasher – Mexico to Colombia, Brazil
  • A. alardus alardus Suriname, Venezuela
  • A. alardus habana (Lucas, 1857) Cuba
  • A. alardus heriul (Mabille & Boullet, 1912) Dominican Republic
  • A. alardus latia Evans, 1952 Mexico, Costa Rica
  • A. alardus aquila Evans, 1952 Colombia
  • Astraptes alector (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Gilbert's flasher
  • A. alector alector Colombia
  • A. alector hopfferi (Plötz, 1881) Mexico, Central America, Peru
  • Astraptes anaphus (Cramer, [1777]) – yellow-tipped flasher – South America, Greater Antilles to south Texas
  • A. anaphus anaphus Suriname, Brazil (Bahia)
  • A. anaphus anausis (Godman & Salvin, 1896) St. Vincent, Grenada, Dominica, Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica
  • A. anaphus aniza Evans, 1952 Peru
  • A. anaphus annetta Evans, 1952 Mexico, Costa Rica
  • A. anaphus anoma Evans, 1952 Trinidad
  • Astraptes apastus (Cramer, [1777]) Guiana, Guyane , Brazil, Peru, Trinidad, Mexico
  • A. apastus apastus Suriname
  • A. apastus pusa Evans, 1952 Brazil (Bahia)
  • Astraptes aulus (Plötz, 1881) Panama to Brazil
  • Astraptes brevicauda (Plötz, 1886) Belize, Panama, Nicaragua, Peru
  • Astraptes cassander (Fabricius, 1793) Cuba, Costa Rica
  • Astraptes chiriquensis (Staudinger, 1876) Panama to Colombia
  • A. chiriquensis chiriquensis Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua
  • A. chiriquensis meretrix (Hewitson, 1876) Ecuador
  • A. chiriquensis oenander (Hewitson, 1876) Brazil (Pará)
  • A. chiriquensis erana Evans, 1952 Ecuador
  • Astraptes cretatus (Hayward, 1939)
  • A. cretatus cretatus Ecuador, Brazil (Amazonas)
  • A. cretatus adoba Evans, 1952 Brazil (Espírito Santo)
  • Astraptes creteus (Cramer, [1780]) Mexico to Amazon Brazil
  • A. creteus creteus Suriname
  • A. creteus siges (Mabille, 1903) Brazil
  • A. creteus crana Evans, 1952 south Mexico to Guatemala
  • A. creteus crilla Evans, 1952 Ecuador
  • A. creteus cyprus Evans, 1952 Bolivia
  • Astraptes egregius (Butler, 1870) – small-spotted flasher – Mexico to Colombia, Trinidad
  • A. egregius egregius
  • A. egregius coxeyi (Williams, 1931) Ecuador
  • Astraptes elorus (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina
  • Astraptes enotrus (Stoll, [1781]) Guiana, Guyane, Suriname, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Trinidad
  • Astraptes erycina (Plötz, 1881) Brazil
  • Astraptes fulgerator – two-barred flasher – south Texas, Mexico to Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Trinidad
  • A. fulgerator fulgerator Suriname, Peru
  • A. fulgerator azul Reakirt, [1867]) Texas, Mexico, Bolivia
  • Astraptes fulgor Hayward, 1939) Argentina
  • Astraptes galesus (Mabille, 1888)
  • A. galesus galesus Peru, Ecuador
  • A. galesus cassius Evans, 1952 Costa Rica
  • Astraptes halesius (Hewitson, 1877) French Guiana, Peru
  • Astraptes jaira (Butler, 1870) West Indies, Jamaica
  • Astraptes janeira (Schaus, 1902) Brazil, Suriname, Colombia, Paraguay
  • Astraptes latimargo (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
  • A. latimargo latimargo Panama
  • A. latimargo bifascia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
  • A. latimargo tinda Evans, 1952 Brazil (Pará)
  • Astraptes mabillei Steinhauser, 1989 Bolivia
  • Astraptes megalurus (Mabille, 1877) Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia
  • Astraptes naxos (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil, Colombia
  • Astraptes palliolum (Druce, 1908) Costa Rica
  • Astraptes phalaecus (Godman & Salvin, [1893]) Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica
  • Astraptes talus (Cramer, [1777]) Central America to Brazil, Suriname, Cuba
  • Astraptes tucuti (Williams, 1927) Mexico, Panama
  • Astraptes xagua (Lucas, 1857)
  • A. xagua xagua Cuba
  • A. xagua christyis (Sharpe, 1898) Dominican Republic
  • Astraptes fulgerator puerto iguazuar 23 4 2015 antonio silveira


    References

    Astraptes Wikipedia