Exometoeca

Exometoeca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Tagiadini
Genus: Exometoeca
Meyrick, 1888
Species: E. nycteris
Binomial name
Exometoeca nycteris
Meyrick, 1888

Exometoeca is a genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae). It belongs to the tribe Tagiadini of subfamily Pyrginae.

It is monotypic, with the only species being Exometoeca nycteris. "Exometoeca" rafflesia, the regent skipper of Australia, is now in Euschemon.


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