Cogia cajeta

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Yellow-haired skipper
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Cogia
Species:
C. cajeta
Binomial name
Cogia cajeta
Synonyms
  • Eudamus cajetaHerrich-Schäffer, 1869
  • Thorybes thedeaDyar, 1912
  • Cogia eluinaGodman & Salvin, [1894]

Cogia cajeta, the yellow-haired skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. Subspecies cajeta is found in Mexico in southern Veracruz, eastern Oaxaca, Tabasco and north-eastern Chiapas. Subspecies eluina is found from Jalisco and the Yucatan Peninsula south to Costa Rica.

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Subspecies