Wahydra

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Wahydra
Wahydra graslieae Carneiro et al 2018 Fig 1.png
Wahydra graslieae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subtribe: Moncina
Genus: Wahydra
Steinhauser, 1991
Type species
Pamphila kenava
Butler, 1870

Wahydra is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. As of 2018 it consists of 15 species, [1] including:


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References

  1. ↑ Carneiro, Eduardo; Dolibaina, Diego R.; Grishin, Nick V.; Warren, Andrew D. (2018). "A new species of Wahydra from Ecuador (Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae, Anthoptini)". Zootaxa. 4392 (1): 196. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.1.11 . PMID   29690424.
  2. ↑ Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi . 0731: 1–56.
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