Skipperling

Skipperlings
Large Chequered Skipper, Heteropterus morpheus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Hesperioidea
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Heteropterinae
Aurivillius, 1925
Genera

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Skipperlings are butterflies in the subfamily Heteropterinae. With about 150 described species, this is one of several smallish skipper butterfly subfamilies.

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