''Nascus'' is a genus of
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 biogeogra ...
butterflies in the family
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilion ...
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Funet
/ref> in which it is placed to tribe Phocidini
The Eudaminae are a subfamily of skipper butterflies (family (biology), family Hesperiidae). Their original biological type, type genus ''Eudamus'' is today a junior synonym of ''Urbanus (genus), Urbanus''. They are largely found in the Neotrop ...
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References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
External links
Images representing ''Nascus'' at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Eudaminae
Hesperiidae of South America
Hesperiidae genera
Taxa named by Edward Yerbury Watson
Taxa described in 1893
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