Cymaenes tripunctus
| Cymaenes tripunctus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Cymaenes |
| Species: | C. tripunctus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cymaenes tripunctus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865) | |
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Cymaenes tripunctus, known generally as the three-spotted skipper or dingy dotted skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, Florida, and South America.[1][2][3]
Description
[edit]The wings of the butterfly are dull dark brown. The upperside of the forewing has 3 tiny transparent white spots on the leading edge near the tip and 2 to 3 spots at the end of the cell. The underside of the hindwing is yellow-brown with faint pale spots near the center. The wing span ranges from 1 1/8 to 1 3/8 inches, or 2.9 to 3.5 centimeters long.[4]
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Subspecies
[edit]These two subspecies belong to the species Cymaenes tripunctus:
- Cymaenes tripunctus theogenis Capronnier, 1874
- Cymaenes tripunctus tripunctus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Cymaenes tripunctus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ↑ "Cymaenes tripunctus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ↑ "Cymaenes tripunctus species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ↑ "Three-spotted Skipper Cymaenes tripunctus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865) | Butterflies and Moths of North America". www.butterfliesandmoths.org. Retrieved 2026-03-05.
Further reading
[edit]- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
External links
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Media related to Cymaenes tripunctus at Wikimedia Commons
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