Alera

Alera is a Neotropical genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

For the fictional civilization depicted in novels by Jim Butcher, see Codex Alera.

Alera
William John Swainson's original figure of Alera haworthiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Subfamily:
Hesperiinae
Tribe:
Erionotini
Genus:
Alera

Synonyms
  • Oenides Mabille, 1904

Species
  • Alera furcata Mabille, 1891 Brazil
  • Alera haworthiana (Swainson, 1821) – green-banded ruby-eye – Panama to south Brazil
  • Alera manu Mielke & Casagrande, 2004 Peru, Brazil
  • Alera metallica (Riley, 1921) Brazil
  • Alera romeroi Mielke & Casagrande, 2004 Venezuela
  • Alera vulpina (C. & R. Felder, 1867) Colombia
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References
  1. Alera at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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