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Tarsoctenus corytus
Depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Tarsoctenus
Species:	T. corytus
Binomial name
Tarsoctenus corytus (Cramer, )
Synonyms
Papilio corytus Cramer, Papilio pyramus Cramer, 1779 Erycides gaudialis Hewitson, 1876 Erycides perissographus Mabille, 1889 Tarsoctenus dubius Draudt, 1921

Tarsoctenus corytus is a Neotropical species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Pieter Cramer from Suriname, in Volume II of De uitlandsche Kapellen published posthumously in 1779.

Subspecies

• Tarsoctenus corytus corytus (Suriname)
• Tarsoctenus corytus corba Evans, 1952 (Peru)
• Tarsoctenus corytus gaudialis (Hewitson, 1876) (Panama)

References

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2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Tarsoctenus corytus​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 23, 2018.

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