Lon (butterfly)

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Lon
Male Zabulon Skipper - Flickr - treegrow.jpg
Male Zabulon skipper, Lon zabulon
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
Genus: Lon
Grishin, 2019

Lon is a genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae) found in North and South America.[1][2] The genus was erected in 2019 by Nick V. Grishin.[1] The name derives from the last syllable of the type species name.[1]

Species[]

As of 2019, the genus includes 10 species:[1]

  • Lon zabulon (Boisduval and Le Conte, 1837) – Zabulon skipper, type species
  • Lon hobomok (T. Harris, 1862) – Hobomok skipper
  • (Butler and Druce, 1872) – yellow-stained skipper
  • Lon taxiles (Edwards, 1881) – golden skipper
  • (Godman, 1900)
  • (Burns, 1992) – Macneill's skipper
  • (Plötz, 1883) – ulphila skipper
  • (Godman, 1900) – oyamel skipper
  • (Mabille, 1889) – snow-fringed skipper
  • Lon melane (Edwards, 1869) – umber skipper

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick V. (11 October 2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 0731: 1–56.
  2. ^ "Lon Grishin, 2019". GBIF. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
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