Cogia cajeta
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Cogia |
Species: | C. cajeta
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Binomial name | |
Cogia cajeta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
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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.
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Subspecies[edit]
- Cogia cajeta cajeta (Mexico)
- Cogia cajeta eluina (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua)
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