Autochton (butterfly)

Genus of butterflies

Autochton

Common banded skipper
A. neis, Colombia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Hesperiidae
Subfamily:  | Eudaminae
Genus:  | Autochton
Hübner, [1823]
Species

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Synonyms

List

* Cecropterus (Hübner, 1818)
* Autochthon (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
* Ccropterus (W. F. Kirby, 1871)
* Rhabdoides (Scudder, 1889)
* Antochton (W. F. Kirby, 1912)
* Oecropterus (Spitz, 1932)
* Acropterus (Kaye, 1940)
* Rhaboides (Hayward, 1947)
* Authochton (Ramos, 1977)[1]
* Cabares Godman & Salvin, 1894

Autochton is a genus of skipper butterflies. They belong to the subfamily Eudaminae, which was long included with the spread-winged skippers (Pyrginae) as a tribe. They are found from Mexico to South America.

## Species

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The following species are recognised in the genus Autochton:[2]

* Autochton bipunctatus (Gmelin, [1790]) – two-spotted banded-skipper or twin-spot banded skipper
* Autochton integrifascia (Mabille, 1891)
* Autochton itylus Hübner, [1823]
* Autochton neis (Geyer, 1832)
* Autochton oryx (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862)
* Autochton potrillo (Lucas, 1857)
* Autochton reflexus (Mabille & Boullet, 1912)
* Autochton sulfureolus (Mabille, 1883)

## References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Autochton.

Wikispecies has information related to Autochton.

1. ^ Gerardo Lamas (edited by) (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part4A. Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Gainesville, FL. ISBN 0-945417-28-4
2. ^ Li, Wenlin; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Zhang, Jing; Hallwachs, Winnie; Janzen, Daniel H.; Grishin, Nick V. (26 March 2019). "Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (13). Supporting Information: Appendix pp.10–24. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.6232L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1821304116. PMC 6442542. PMID 30877254.

## External links

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* Images representing Autochton at
* Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

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Taxon identifiers

Autochton|

* Wikidata: Q1361330
* Wikispecies: Autochton
* BioLib: 578880
* BOLD: 6788
* BugGuide: 263
* ButMoth: 3342.0
* CoL: 923DR
* EoL: 20145
* GBIF: 1947971
* iNaturalist: 52940
* Insecta.pro: 26568
* IRMNG: 1065936
* ITIS: 706399
* LepIndex: 181240
* NCBI: 354802
* Open Tree of Life: 99276

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