Pteroteinon

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Pteroteinon
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Pteroteinon and related species in William Jacob Holland, 1896 Revision and Synonymic Catalogue of the Hesperiidae of Africa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Erionotini
Genus: Pteroteinon
Watson, 1893 [1]
Synonyms
  • TanypteraMabille, 1877 (preocc. Tanyptera Latreille, 1804)

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

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References

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