Aguna (butterfly)

Aguna
Aguna aurunce (Hewitson, 1867) Fig. 20, Aguna asander (Hewitson, 1867) Fig. 24.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Aguna Williams, 1927

Aguna is a Neotropical genus in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae).

Aguna species are:^[1][2]

• (Plötz, 1880) Brazil
  • A. albistria leucogramma (Mabille, 1888) southeast Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela (Suriname?)
• (Hewitson, 1867) – gold-spotted aguna – type locality Brazil
  • A. asander asander (Hewitson, 1867) south U.S. (as stray) to Argentina
  • A. asander haitensis (Mabille & Boullet, 1912) Cuba and Hispaniola
  • A. asander jasper Evans, 1952 Jamaica
• Hewitson, 1867 type locality Brazil
  • A. aurunce hypozonius (Plötz, 1880) south east Mexico to Venezuela
• (R. Williams, 1926) type locality Brazil
• Evans, 1952 type locality Brazil
• Aguna claxon Evans, 1952 – emerald aguna – Cuba, south Texas to Colombia and Suriname
• Evans, 1952 type locality Colombia
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 southeast Mexico to southern Brazil
• (Stoll, 1781) – Stoll's aguna – Costa Rica and Panama to Peru and central Brazil
• (Möschler, 1879) – Ganna aguna – Costa Rica to Colombia and Venezuela
• (Mabille, 1888) type locality Brazil
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Ecuador
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Brazil
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Brazil
• (Mabille, 1888) type locality Brazil
  • A. megaeles malia Evans, 1952 type locality Venezuela
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Brazil
• Aguna metophis (Latreille, [1824]) – long-tailed aguna – south Texas to south Brazil
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Brazil
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – Panamanian aguna – Honduras to Venezuela
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Brazil
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Brazil
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Brazil
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Brazil
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Brazil
• Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 type locality Brazil
• O. Mielke, 1971 type locality Venezuela

References[]

• Austin, George T., Olaf H. H. Mielke. 2008. Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: Porphyrogenes Watson (Lepidoptera: Pyrginae: Eudamini), with descriptions of new species from Central and South America Insecta Mundi 0044:1-56

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