Pyrrhopygopsis

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Pyrrhopygopsis
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Pyrrhopygopsis and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
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Pyrrhopygopsis

Godman in Godman & Salvin, [1901]

Pyrrhopygopsis is a Neotropical genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

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