Gretna (skipper)

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Gretna
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Gretnini
Grishin, 2019
Genus: Gretna
Evans, 1937 [1]

Gretna is a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. It is the only genus in the monotypic tribe Gretnini. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Gretna at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi . 0731: 1–56.


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