Cogia caicus

Cogia caicus, known generally as the gold-costa skipper or caicus skipper, is a species of dicot skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae.[1][2]

Cogia caicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Cogia
Species:
C. caicus
Binomial name
Cogia caicus
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)

The MONA or Hodges number for Cogia caicus is 3924.[3]

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Cogia caicus:

  • Cogia caicus caicus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
  • Cogia caicus moschus (W. H. Edwards, 1882)

References

  1. "Cogia caicus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Cogia caicus". Retrieved 2019-09-24.

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