Ochlodes

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Ochlodes
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Female large skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subtribe: Hesperiina
Genus: Ochlodes
Scudder, 1872
Species

Numerous; see text. [1]

Ochlodes is a Holarctic genus in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. The genus is placed in the tribe Hesperiini.

Examples of Ochlodes species:


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