Cogia cajeta

Yellow-haired skipper
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Cogia
Species:
C. cajeta
Binomial name
Cogia cajeta
Synonyms
  • Eudamus cajeta Herrich-Schäffer, 1869
  • Thorybes thedea Dyar, 1912
  • Cogia eluina Godman & Salvin, [1894]

Cogia cajeta, the yellow-haired skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. Subspecies cajeta is found in Mexico in southern Veracruz, eastern Oaxaca, Tabasco and north-eastern Chiapas. Subspecies eluina is found from Jalisco and the Yucatan Peninsula south to Costa Rica.

Subspecies

  • Cogia cajeta cajeta (Mexico)
  • Cogia cajeta eluina (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua)


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