Hesperia (butterfly)

Hesperia (genus)
Hesperia comma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
Tribe: Hesperiini
Genus: Hesperia
Fabricius, 1793
Species

About 20, see text.

Hesperia (the Branded Skippers) is a Holarctic genus in the Skippers (Hesperiidae) butterfly family. Most species are endemic to North America, Hesperia comma is widespread throughout the region. Hesperia florinda is endemic to temperate eastern Asia. H. nabokovi is endemic to Hispaniola.

Presumably Fabricius named the genus for Hesperia, one of the Hesperides.

Hesperia species are:

References and external links

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