Flasher butterflies | |
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Astraptes anaphus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Subfamily: | Eudaminae |
Genus: | Astraptes Hübner, [1819] |
Species | |
Several, see text |
Astraptes is the genus of flasher butterflies. They belong to the skipper butterfly subfamily Eudaminae, which was long included with the spread-winged skippers (Pyrginae) as a tribe.
Species include: