Lon (butterfly)

Lon
Male Zabulon skipper, Lon zabulon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subtribe:	Hesperiina
Genus:	Lon Grishin, 2019

Lon is a genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae) found in North and South America.[1][2] The genus was erected in 2019 by Nick V. Grishin.[1] The name derives from the last syllable of the type species name.[1]

Species

As of 2019^[update], the genus includes 10 species:[1]

• Lon zabulon (Boisduval and Le Conte, 1837) – Zabulon skipper, type species
• Lon hobomok (T. Harris, 1862) – Hobomok skipper
• Lon inimica (Butler and Druce, 1872) – yellow-stained skipper
• Lon taxiles (Edwards, 1881) – golden skipper
• Lon azin (Godman, 1900)
• Lon macneilli (Burns, 1992) – Macneill's skipper
• Lon ulphila (Plötz, 1883) – ulphila skipper
• Lon monticola (Godman, 1900) – oyamel skipper
• Lon niveolimbus (Mabille, 1889) – snow-fringed skipper
• Lon melane (Edwards, 1869) – umber skipper

References

1. Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick V. (11 October 2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 0731: 1–56.
2. "Lon Grishin, 2019". GBIF. Retrieved 5 August 2021.