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''Jonaspyge'' is a
Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeogra ...
genus of
firetips Firetips or firetail skippers are skipper butterflies in the subfamily Pyrrhopyginae (family Hesperiidae). The roughly 150 species are found only in the Neotropics, with the exception of one species which just reaches into the United States. Thei ...
in the family
Hesperiidae Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilion ...
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Species

*'' Jonaspyge aesculapus'' (Staudinger, 1876) Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador *'' Jonaspyge jonas'' (C. & R. Felder, 1859) Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua *'' Jonaspyge tzotzili'' (Freeman, 1969) Mexico


References


Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database


External links


images representing Jonaspyge at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Hesperiidae Hesperiidae of South America Hesperiidae genera {{Hesperiidae-stub