''Lerodea'' is a genus of
skippers 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
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Lerodea eufala''
(Edwards, 1869) -
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
by original genus designation
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Lerodea arabus''
(Edwards, 1882)
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Lerodea casta''
(Hayward, 1942)
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Lerodea emba''
(Evans, 1955)
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Lerodea erythrostictus''
(Prittwitz, 1868)
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Lerodea gracia''
(Dyar, 1913)
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Lerodea sonex''
Grishin, 2022
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Lerodea williamsi''
(Hayward, 1942)
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiinae
Hesperiidae genera
Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Taxa described in 1872
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