''Cymaenes tripunctus'', known generally as the three-spotted skipper or dingy dotted skipper, is a species of
grass skipper in the
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
family
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...
. It is found in the
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...
, Central America, North America, and South America.
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Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species ''Cymaenes tripunctus'':
* ''Cymaenes tripunctus theogenis'' Capronnier, 1874
* ''Cymaenes tripunctus tripunctus'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865)
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Hesperiinae
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Butterflies described in 1865
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