Butterflies and Moths of North America

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Oyamel Skipper
Lon monticola (Godman, 1900)
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
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Range: West to south-central Mexico (source: Butterflies of America).
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Taxonomy Notes: Lon is a new genus. See Cong, Qian, Jing Zhang, Jinhui Shen and Nikolay Vyacheslav Grishin 2019b. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 731: 1-56, 13 figs., 1 tab.
Alternate Scientific Names:
Poanes monticola
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Verified Sightings

Displaying 1 - 1 of 1 verified sightings
Observation date: Aug 04, 2007
Submitted by: redfishin
Region: Mexico
Verified by: Paul Prappas
Verified date: May 02, 2023
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