Pythonides jovianus

Fazenda Grotão - DF, Brazil.

 

That's a skipper with nice shades of colours.

 

Many species in the tribe Achlyodidini are notable for their (by skipper butterfly standards) gaudy colors.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Hesperiidae

Subfamily: Pyrginae

Tribe: Achlyodidini

Genus: Pythonides Hübner, [1819]

Species: P. jovianus (Stoll 1782)

Binomial name: Pythonides jovianus

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