''Pythonides lancea'' is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
in the
skipper family, found in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
and in Argentina.
''P. lancea'' was first described in 1868 by
William Chapman Hewitson and named ''Leucochitonea lancea'', after realizing this species was different from ''P. jovianus'' previously described by
Pieter Cramer.
Gallery
File:CramerAndStoll-uitlandsche_kapellen_vol._4-_pl_392.jpg, ''P. jovianus'' (L,M) in a plate from Cramer & Stoll (1782).
File:Fig 713 Plate 614 Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge.png, ''P. lancea'' from Hübner & Geyer (1908).
File:Pythonides jovianus JJK'1.jpg, ''P. jovianus'' observed in Cacoal, Brazil.
File:Pythonides lancea - 4.jpg, ''P. lancea'' observed in Guarapiranga, Brazil.
References
Butterflies described in 1868
Hesperiidae
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