Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Telegonus alector - Gilbert’s Flasher - Hodges#3899

Gilbert’s Flasher - Telegonus alector
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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 Eudaminae (Dicot Skippers)
Genus Telegonus (Flashers)
Species alector (Gilbert’s Flasher - Hodges#3899)
Hodges Number
3899
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Syn: gilberti
formerly in Astraptes
Explanation of Names
Telegonus alector (Felder & Felder, 1867)
Range
southmost TX (as a stray) to Brazil - Map (MPG, BOA)
Remarks
First U.S. Record: Pharr, Hidalgo Co., Texas - 1944 (Freeman, 1945)
Print References
Freeman, H.A. 1945. Notes on some Hesperiidae, with new records for the United States (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Entomological News 56(4): 102-104.
Internet References