en Astraptes

Flasher butterflies
	Astraptes sp. and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Eudaminae
Genus:	Astraptes; Hübner, [1819]
Species
	Several, see text

Astraptes, commonly known as the flasher butterflies, is a genus of skipper butterflies in the subfamily Eudaminae. They are found in the Nearctic and Neotropical ecozones.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Astraptes:^[1]

Astraptes erycina (Plötz, 1881) Brazil
Astraptes mabillei Steinhauser, 1989 Bolivia
Astraptes halesius (Hewitson, 1877) French Guiana, Peru
Astraptes aulus (Plötz, 1881) Panama to Brazil
Astraptes enotrus (Stoll, [1781]) Guiana, Guyane, Suriname, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Trinidad
Astraptes janeira (Schaus, 1902) Brazil, Suriname, Colombia, Paraguay

^ Li, Wenlin; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Zhang, Jing; Hallwachs, Winnie; Janzen, Daniel H.; Grishin, Nick V. (26 March 2019). "Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (13). Supporting Information: Appendix pp.10–24. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.6232L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1821304116. PMC 6442542. PMID 30877254.