Biology:Lon (butterfly)

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Short description: Genus of butterflies


Lon
Male Zabulon Skipper - Flickr - treegrow.jpg
Male Zabulon skipper, Lon zabulon
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subtribe: Hesperiina
Genus: Lon
Grishin, 2019

Lon is a genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae) found in North and South America.[1][2] The genus was erected in 2019 by Nick V. Grishin.[1] The name derives from the last syllable of the type species name.[1]

Species

(As of 2019), the genus includes 10 species:[1]

  • Lon zabulon (Boisduval and Le Conte, 1837) – Zabulon skipper, type species
  • Lon hobomok (T. Harris, 1862) – Hobomok skipper
  • Lon inimica (Butler and Druce, 1872) – yellow-stained skipper
  • Lon taxiles (Edwards, 1881) – golden skipper
  • Lon azin (Godman, 1900)
  • Lon macneilli (Burns, 1992) – Macneill's skipper
  • Lon ulphila (Plötz, 1883) – ulphila skipper
  • Lon monticola (Godman, 1900) – oyamel skipper
  • Lon niveolimbus (Mabille, 1889) – snow-fringed skipper
  • Lon melane (Edwards, 1869) – umber skipper

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick V. (11 October 2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56. https://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/117773/115797. 
  2. "Lon Grishin, 2019" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/10962816. 

Wikidata ☰ Q97302484 entry