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Hesperiidae

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Metisella malgacha (Boisduval, 1833)

Metisella malgacha, the grassveld sylph, is a Hesperiidae butterfly native to South Africa and Lesotho.

Metisella metis (Linnaeus, 1764)

Metisella metis, the gold spotted sylph, is a Hesperiidae butterfly found in South Africa whose larvae feed on specific grasses.

Piruna pirus (Edwards, 1878)

Piruna pirus, the russet skipperling, is a North American intermediate skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae.

Piruna aea (Dyar, 1912)

Piruna aea, the many-spotted skipperling, is an intermediate skipper found in Central and North America.

Piruna polingii (Barnes, 1900)

Piruna polingii, the four-spotted skipperling, is a Hesperiidae butterfly species found in Central and North America.

Willema willemi

Willema willemi, the netted sylph, is an African Hesperiidae butterfly species whose larvae feed on Setaria plants.

Autochton potrillo

Autochton potrillo (potrillo skipper) is a dicot skipper butterfly in the Hesperiidae family found across the Americas and the Caribbean.

Thorybes pylades (Scudder, 1870)

Thorybes pylades, the northern cloudywing, is a butterfly species found across North America with specific habitat and life cycle traits.

Thorybes daunus (Cramer, 1777)

Thorybes daunus, the southern cloudywing, is a butterfly species found in multiple open North American habitats with distinct wing markings.

Thorybes mexicana (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)

Thorybes mexicana is a Hesperiidae butterfly found from the western US south into Mexico, with a often split subspecies.

Thorybes mexicana confusis Bell, 1923

Thorybes mexicana confusis is a often species-separated Hesperiidae butterfly subspecies with specific North American range and host plants.

Thorybes drusius (Edwards, 1883)

Thorybes drusius, or drusius cloudywing, is a dicot skipper butterfly found in Central and North America.

Thorybes mexicana nevada Scudder, 1872

Thorybes mexicana is a Hesperiidae butterfly found in western US mountains and Mexico, with larvae eating legume plants.

Thorybes casica

Desert cloudywing (Thorybes casica) is a dicot skipper butterfly found in Central and North America.

Thorybes lyciades

Thorybes lyciades, the hoary edge, is a butterfly with a 4.5–4.9 cm wingspan that produces two annual broods.

Epargyreus clarus (Cramer, 1775)

Epargyreus clarus, the silver-spotted skipper, is a well-known North American Hesperiidae butterfly.

Chioides zilpa (Butler, 1874)

Chioides zilpa, the zilpa longtail, is a dicot skipper butterfly found across the Americas.

Spathilepia clonius (Cramer, 1775)

Spathilepia is a monotypic Hesperiidae butterfly genus with its only species Spathilepia clonius distributed from Texas to Argentina.

Proteides mercurius (Fabricius, 1787)

The mercurial skipper (Proteides mercurius) is a dicot skipper butterfly found across the Americas with Hodges number 3868.

Urbanus procne (Plötz, 1881)

Spicauda procne, the brown longtail, is a Hesperiidae butterfly found from Argentina to southern North America, with larvae feeding on grasses.

Urbanus simplicius (Stoll, 1790)

The plain longtail, Urbanus simplicius, is a Hesperiidae butterfly found from Argentina north to southern Texas and peninsular Florida.

Urbanus tanna Evans, 1952

Tanna longtail (Spicauda tanna) is a Hesperiidae butterfly found from Mexico to South America, with rare strays reaching southern Texas.

Astraptes alardus (Stoll, 1790)

Astraptes alardus, the frosted flasher, is a dicot skipper butterfly found across the Americas and the Caribbean.

Astraptes anaphus (Cramer, 1777)

Astraptes anaphus is a Eudaminae skipper butterfly found across the Americas, with larvae feeding on Fabaceae vines.

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