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Grass skippers
Subfamily of butterflies / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grass skippers or banded skippers[5] are butterflies of the subfamily Hesperiinae, part of the skipper family, Hesperiidae. The subfamily was established by Pierre André Latreille in 1809.[1]
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Grass skippers | |
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both Hesperia comma Oxfordshire | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Subfamily: | Hesperiinae Latreille, 1809 |
Tribes[1][2] | |
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