Veined White-Skipper (Heliopetes arsalte)

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Heliopetes arsalte
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Heliopetes
Species:
H. arsalte
Binomial name
Heliopetes arsalte
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Papilio (Danaus) arsalte Linnaeus, 1758
  • Papilio niveus Cramer, 1775
  • Pyrgus figara Butler, 1870
  • Heliopetes arsalte arsalte (Linnaeus); Draudt, 1924

Heliopetes arsalte, commonly known as the veined white-skipper, is a species of spread-wing skipper butterfly in the family Hesperiidae.[1] It is widely distributed across Central and South America, ranging from Argentina north to Mexico, and occasionally appearing as a rare stray in southern Texas.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Heliopetes arsalte (Linnaeus, 1758)". Butterflies and Moths of North America.
  2. ^ "Heliopetes arsalte (Linnaeus, 1758)". Butterflies of America.

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