Biology:Panoquina lucas

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Panoquina lucas
Purple-washed skipper (Panoquina lucas lucas).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Panoquina
Species:
P. lucas
Binomial name
Panoquina lucas
(Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms[1]
  • Goniloba sylvicola Herrich-Schäffer, 1865
  • (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865) Panoquina sylvicola

Panoquina lucas, the purple-washed skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, North America, and South America.[1][2][3]

The MONA or Hodges number for Panoquina lucas is 4121.[4]

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Panoquina lucas:

  • Panoquina lucas lucas (Fabricius, 1793)
  • Panoquina lucas woodruffi Watson, 1937

References

Further reading

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q21320525 entry