Cabirus

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Cabirus procas
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Cabirus
Hübner, [1819]
Species:
C. procas
Binomial name
Cabirus procas
(Cramer, 1777)

Cabirus is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. [1] It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Cabirus procas.

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References

  1. Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi . 0731: 1–56.