Pteroteinon

Pteroteinon
Pteroteinon and related species in William Jacob Holland, 1896 Revision and Synonymic Catalogue of the Hesperiidae of Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Pteroteinon Watson, 1893[1]
Synonyms
Tanyptera Mabille, 1877 (preocc. Tanyptera Latreille, 1804)

Pteroteinon is an Afrotropical genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Species[]

• Pteroteinon caenira (Hewitson, 1867)
• Pteroteinon capronnieri (Plötz, 1879)
• Pteroteinon ceucaenira (Druce, 1910)
• Pteroteinon concaenira Belcastro & Larsen, 1996
• Pteroteinon iricolor (Holland, 1890)
• Pteroteinon laterculus (Holland, 1890)
• Pteroteinon laufella (Hewitson, 1868)
• Pteroteinon pruna Evans, 1937

References[]

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External links[]

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 80