Dotta (butterfly)
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Hesperiinae |
| Tribe: | Astictopterini |
| Genus: | Dotta Grishin in Cong et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| Dotta stellata (Mabille, 1891)
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Dotta is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. The species are known by the common name of dark sylphs. They are found in southern and eastern Africa.[1]
Species
[edit]The following species belong in the genus:
- Dotta callicles (Hewitson, 1868) –Namibia, etc.
- Dotta stellata (Mabille, 1891) –Kenya, etc.
- Dotta tura (Evans, 1951) –Tanzania
References
[edit]- ^ Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2022-03-14). "Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. PMID 35370352.
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