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| Male Zabulon skipper, Lon zabulon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subtribe: | Hesperiina |
| Genus: | Lon Grishin, 2019 |
Lon is a genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae) found in North and South America. The genus was erected in 2019 by Nick V. Grishin. The name derives from the last syllable of the type species name.
Species
As of 2019, the genus includes 10 species:
- Lon zabulon (Boisduval and Le Conte, 1837) – Zabulon skipper, type species
- Lon hobomok (T. Harris, 1862) – Hobomok skipper
- Lon inimica (Butler and Druce, 1872) – yellow-stained skipper
- Lon taxiles (Edwards, 1881) – golden skipper
- Lon azin (Godman, 1900)
- Lon macneilli (Burns, 1992) – Macneill's skipper
- Lon ulphila (Plötz, 1883) – ulphila skipper
- Lon monticola (Godman, 1900) – oyamel skipper
- Lon niveolimbus (Mabille, 1889) – snow-fringed skipper
- Lon melane (Edwards, 1869) – umber skipper
References
- ^ Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick V. (11 October 2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 0731: 1–56.
- "Lon Grishin, 2019". GBIF. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
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