Alera

Alera
William John Swainson's original figure of Alera haworthiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Alera Mabille, 1891[1]
Synonyms
Oenides Mabille, 1904

Alera is a Neotropical genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species[]

• Mabille, 1891 Brazil
• (Swainson, 1821) – green-banded ruby-eye – Panama to south Brazil
• Mielke & Casagrande, 2004 Peru, Brazil
• (Riley, 1921) Brazil
• Mielke & Casagrande, 2004 Venezuela
• (C. & R. Felder, 1867) Colombia

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• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database