Cogia cajeta

Yellow-haired skipper
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Cogia
Species:	C. cajeta
Binomial name
Cogia cajeta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
Synonyms
Eudamus cajeta Herrich-Schäffer, 1869 Thorybes thedea Dyar, 1912 Cogia eluina Godman & Salvin, [1894]

Cogia cajeta, the yellow-haired skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. Subspecies cajeta is found in Mexico in southern Veracruz, eastern Oaxaca, Tabasco and north-eastern Chiapas. Subspecies eluina is found from Jalisco and the Yucatan Peninsula south to Costa Rica.

Subspecies

• Cogia cajeta cajeta (Mexico)
• Cogia cajeta eluina (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua)

External links

• Mexican Butterflies
• Taxon Notes on Neotropical Skippers