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Species Cyllopsis pyracmon - Nabokov's Satyr - Hodges#4570

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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 Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)
Subfamily Satyrinae (Satyrs, Morphos and Owls)
Tribe Satyrini (Alpines, Arctics, Nymphs and Satyrs)
Genus Cyllopsis
Species pyracmon (Nabokov's Satyr - Hodges#4570)
Hodges Number
4570
Other Common Names
Pyracmon Brown, Mexico Arroyo Satyr
Explanation of Names
Cyllopsis pyracmon was described from Oaxaca, Mexico. Miller (1974) named specimens from Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, as subspecies nabokovi. Seems as though the ssp. has now been dropped for the Arizona specimens but the common name - Nabokov's Satyr - still persists