Osmodes

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Osmodes
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A Preliminary Revision and Synonymic Catalogue of the Hesperiidae of Africa by William Jacob Holland ,1896
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Erionotini
Genus: Osmodes
Holland, 1892 [1]
Synonyms
  • OsmodesWatson, 1893

Osmodes is an Afrotropical genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

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References

  1. Osmodes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms