Piruna aea, the many-spotted skipperling, is a species of intermediate skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. It is found in Central America and North America.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Piruna |
| Species: | P. aea
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| Binomial name | |
| Piruna aea (Dyar, 1912)
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The MONA or Hodges number for Piruna aea is 3986.1.[4]
Subspecies
editThese two subspecies belong to the species Piruna aea:
- Piruna aea aea
- Piruna aea mexicana H. Freeman, 1979
References
edit- ^ a b "Piruna aea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Piruna aea". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Piruna aea species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Piruna aea". Retrieved 2019-09-24.
Further reading
edit- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
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