''Jonaspyge'' is a
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
genus of
firetips
Firetips or firetail skippers are skipper butterflies in the subfamily Pyrrhopyginae (family Hesperiidae). The roughly 150 species are found only in the Neotropics, with the exception of one species which just reaches into the United States. The ...
in the family
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...
.
Species
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Jonaspyge aesculapus''
(Staudinger, 1876) Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
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Jonaspyge jonas''
(C. & R. Felder, 1859) Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua
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Jonaspyge tzotzili''
(Freeman, 1969) Mexico
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
External links
images representing Jonaspyge at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Hesperiidae
Hesperiidae of South America
Hesperiidae genera
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