Chiomara | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Tribe: | Erynnini |
Genus: | Chiomara Godman & Salvin, [1899] |
Chiomara is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
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