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Genus Anatrytone

Skipper #3 - Anatrytone logan Skipper 710-2 - Anatrytone logan skipper - Anatrytone logan Delaware Skipper - Anatrytone logan - male Skipper -  - Anatrytone logan Delaware skipper... - Anatrytone logan Delaware Skipper - Anatrytone logan - female Anatrytone logan
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Papilionoidea (Butterflies and Skippers)
Family Hesperiidae (Skippers)
Subfamily Hesperiinae (Grass Skippers)
Tribe Hesperiini
Genus Anatrytone
Numbers
3 species in North America, listed under "Atrytone" (Nearctica.com). - See REMARKS section below
Range
Anatrytone logan distributed over the eastern two-thirds of US and adjacent parts of Canada.
A. mazai and A. potosiensis restricted to southern Texas.
(The Arogos Skipper is placed in a different genus - Atrytone - and is restricted to the midwest states and along the eastern US seaboard.)
Remarks
Although the Nearctica site lists 4 species under Atrytone (and makes no mention of Anatrytone), Layberry, Hall, & Lafontaine (2002) say:
"The genus Atrytone was recently restricted to just one species, arogos (Boisduval & Leconte); other members of the genus, including logan, were transferred to Anatrytone (Burns, 1994b)."
- quoted from bottom of this page.
Internet References
taxonomic remark at bottom of page (CBIF)