Croniades

Croniades
Illustration accompanying the original description of Croniades pieria in William Chapman Hewitson's Illustrations of new species of exotic butterflies
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Croniades
Mabille, 1903
Species: C. pieria
Binomial name
Croniades pieria
(Hewitson, 1857)

Croniades is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae. The genus is monotypic. The single species is Croniades pieria, found in Bolivia, Brazil and Guyane.

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