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Hesperiidae 77a0001 – 3865   Phocides batabano (Lucas, 1857)

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: batabano (Lucas, 1857) (Eudamus) extralim. batabano (Lucas, 1857) (Eudamus) extralim. ssp. a. okeechobee (Worthington, 1881) (Erycides)  pigmalion of authors; (not Cramer, 1779) (Papilio) misappl.  pigmalion of authors; (not Cramer, 1779) (Papilio) misappl. Taxonomic Notes: Phocides batabano (Lucas, 1857), formerly treated as a synonym of batabano Lucas, 1857, is treated as a full species in Zhang et al. (2020) with okeechobee Worthington, 1881 as a subspecies. "True" batabano is extralimital north of Mexico.

References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.)

Barcode of Life (BOLD) Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at the Butterflies of America Zhang, J., Q. Cong, J. Shen, P.A. Opler, N.V. Grishin, 2021. Genomics-guided refinement of butterfly taxonomy. Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey, 9(3): 1-55.

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