Pythonides lancea

Pythonides lancea
Pythonides lancea observed in Brazil in 2018
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Pythonides
Species:	P. lancea
Binomial name
Pythonides lancea (Hewitson, 1868)
Synonyms
Leucochitonea lancea1868

Pythonides lancea is a species of butterfly in the skipper family, found in Brazil and in Argentina. ^{[1] [2]}

Pythonides lancea was first described in 1868 by William Chapman Hewitson and named Leucochitonea lancea, after realizing this species was different from P. jovianus previously described by Pieter Cramer. ^[3]

Gallery

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  P. jovianus (L,M) in a plate from Cramer & Stoll (1782).
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  P. lancea from Hübner & Geyer (1908).
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  P. jovianus observed in Cacoal, Brazil.
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  P. lancea observed in Guarapiranga, Brazil.

References

1. Mielke, OHH; Emery, EDO; Pinheiro, CEG (2008). "The butterflies Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera, Hesperioidea) from the Federal District, Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Entomology. 52 (2): 283–288 – via ResearchGate.
2. Núñez Bustos, Ezequiel O. (2009). "Daytime butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea Y Hesperioidea) from the Iguazu National Park, Misiones Province, Argentina". Tropical Lepidoptera Research. 19 (2): 71–81.
3. Hewitson, William Chapman (1868). Descriptions of one hundred new species of Hesperidae. London: John Van Voorst. p. 47.