Flasher butterflies | |
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Astraptes sp. and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Subfamily: | Eudaminae |
Genus: | Astraptes Hübner, [1819] |
Species | |
Several, see text |
Astraptes, commonly known as the flasher butterflies, is a genus of skipper butterflies in the subfamily Eudaminae. They are found in the Nearctic and Neotropical ecozones.