Cantha

Genus of butterflies

Cantha

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Hesperiidae
Subtribe:  | Moncina
Genus:  | Cantha
Evans, [1955]

Cantha is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

## Species

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Recognised species in the genus Cantha include:

* Cantha calva Evans, 1955[1]
* Cantha zara (Bell, 1941)[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2022-03-14). "Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 2022 (921). PMC 8975183. PMID 35370352.

* Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Taxon identifiers

Cantha|

* Wikidata: Q5033732
* Wikispecies: Cantha
* BioLib: 643932
* ButMoth: 4995.0
* CoL: 924KL
* EoL: 20578
* GBIF: 1160559
* iNaturalist: 602403
* IRMNG: 1432017
* LepIndex: 181733
* NCBI: 2839450
* Open Tree of Life: 4235221

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