Astraptes
Astraptes is the genus of flasher butterflies. They belong to the skipper butterfly subfamily Eudaminae, which was long included with the spread-winged skippers as a tribe. They are found in the Nearctic and Neotropical ecozones.
's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Species include:
- Astraptes alardus – frosted flasher – Mexico to Colombia, Brazil
- * A. alardus alardus Suriname, Venezuela
- * A. alardus habana Cuba
- * A. alardus heriul Dominican Republic
- * A. alardus latia Evans, 1952 Mexico, Costa Rica
- * A. alardus aquila Evans, 1952 Colombia
- Astraptes alector – Gilbert's flasher
- * A. alector alector Colombia
- * A. alector hopfferi Mexico, Central America, Peru
- * Astraptes anaphus – yellow-tipped flasher – South America, Greater Antilles to south Texas
- * A. anaphus anaphus Suriname, Brazil
- * A. anaphus anausis St. Vincent, Grenada, Dominica, Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica
- * A. anaphus aniza Evans, 1952 Peru
- * A. anaphus annetta Evans, 1952 Mexico, Costa Rica
- * A. anaphus anoma Evans, 1952 Trinidad
- Astraptes apastus Guiana, Guyane, Brazil, Peru, Trinidad, Mexico
- * A. apastus apastus Suriname
- * A. apastus pusa Evans, 1952 Brazil
- Astraptes aulus Panama to Brazil
- Astraptes brevicauda Belize, Panama, Nicaragua, Peru
- Astraptes cassander Cuba, Costa Rica
- Astraptes chiriquensis Panama to Colombia
- * A. chiriquensis chiriquensis Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua
- * A. chiriquensis meretrix Ecuador
- * A. chiriquensis oenander Brazil
- * A. chiriquensis erana Evans, 1952 Ecuador
- Astraptes cretatus
- * A. cretatus cretatus Ecuador, Brazil
- * A. cretatus adoba Evans, 1952 Brazil
- Astraptes creteus Mexico to Amazon Brazil
- * A. creteus creteus Suriname
- * A. creteus siges Brazil
- * A. creteus crana Evans, 1952 south Mexico to Guatemala
- * A. creteus crilla Evans, 1952 Ecuador
- * A. creteus cyprus Evans, 1952 Bolivia
- Astraptes egregius – small-spotted flasher – Mexico to Colombia, Trinidad
- * A. egregius egregius
- * A. egregius coxeyi Ecuador
- Astraptes elorus Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina
- Astraptes enotrus Guiana, Guyane, Suriname, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Trinidad
- Astraptes erycina Brazil
- Astraptes fulgerator – two-barred flasher – south Texas, Mexico to Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Trinidad
- * A. fulgerator fulgerator Suriname, Peru
- * A. fulgerator azul Reakirt, ) Texas, Mexico, Bolivia
- Astraptes fulgor Hayward, 1939) Argentina
- Astraptes galesus
- * A. galesus galesus Peru, Ecuador
- * A. galesus cassius Evans, 1952 Costa Rica
- Astraptes halesius French Guiana, Peru
- Astraptes jaira West Indies, Jamaica
- Astraptes janeira Brazil, Suriname, Colombia, Paraguay
- Astraptes latimargo
- * A. latimargo latimargo Panama
- * A. latimargo bifascia
- * A. latimargo tinda Evans, 1952 Brazil
- Astraptes mabillei Steinhauser, 1989 Bolivia
- Astraptes megalurus Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia
- Astraptes naxos Brazil, Colombia
- Astraptes palliolum Costa Rica
- Astraptes phalaecus Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica
- Astraptes talus Central America to Brazil, Suriname, Cuba
- Astraptes tucuti Mexico, Panama
- Astraptes xagua
- * A. xagua xagua Cuba
- * A. xagua christyis Dominican Republic
