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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 (Pyrginae) as a tribe. They are found in the Nearctic and Neotropical ecozones.
Species include:
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Astraptes alardus (Stoll, 1790) – frosted flasher – Mexico to Colombia, Brazil
- A. alardus alardus Suriname, Venezuela
- A. alardus habana (Lucas, 1857) Cuba
- A. alardus heriul (Mabille & Boullet, 1912) Dominican Republic
- A. alardus latia Evans, 1952 Mexico, Costa Rica
- A. alardus aquila Evans, 1952 Colombia
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Astraptes alector (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Gilbert's flasher
- A. alector alector Colombia
- A. alector hopfferi (Plötz, 1881) Mexico, Central America, Peru
- Astraptes anaphus (Cramer, [1777]) – yellow-tipped flasher – South America, Greater Antilles to south Texas
- A. anaphus anaphus Suriname, Brazil (Bahia)
- A. anaphus anausis (Godman & Salvin, 1896) 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
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Astraptes apastus (Cramer, [1777]) Guiana, Guyane , Brazil, Peru, Trinidad, Mexico
- A. apastus apastus Suriname
- A. apastus pusa Evans, 1952 Brazil (Bahia)
- Astraptes aulus (Plötz, 1881) Panama to Brazil
- Astraptes brevicauda (Plötz, 1886) Belize, Panama, Nicaragua, Peru
- Astraptes cassander (Fabricius, 1793) Cuba, Costa Rica
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Astraptes chiriquensis (Staudinger, 1876) Panama to Colombia
- A. chiriquensis chiriquensis Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua
- A. chiriquensis meretrix (Hewitson, 1876) Ecuador
- A. chiriquensis oenander (Hewitson, 1876) Brazil (Pará)
- A. chiriquensis erana Evans, 1952 Ecuador
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Astraptes cretatus (Hayward, 1939)
- A. cretatus cretatus Ecuador, Brazil (Amazonas)
- A. cretatus adoba Evans, 1952 Brazil (Espírito Santo)
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Astraptes creteus (Cramer, [1780]) Mexico to Amazon Brazil
- A. creteus creteus Suriname
- A. creteus siges (Mabille, 1903) Brazil
- A. creteus crana Evans, 1952 south Mexico to Guatemala
- A. creteus crilla Evans, 1952 Ecuador
- A. creteus cyprus Evans, 1952 Bolivia
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Astraptes egregius (Butler, 1870) – small-spotted flasher – Mexico to Colombia, Trinidad
- A. egregius egregius
- ''A. egregius coxeyi '' (Williams, 1931) Ecuador
- Astraptes elorus (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina
- Astraptes enotrus (Stoll, [1781]) Guiana, Guyane, Suriname, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Trinidad
- Astraptes erycina (Plötz, 1881) Brazil
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Astraptes fulgerator – two-barred flasher – south Texas, Mexico to Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Trinidad
- A. fulgerator fulgerator Suriname, Peru
- A. fulgerator azul Reakirt, [1867]) Texas, Mexico, Bolivia
- Astraptes fulgor Hayward, 1939) Argentina
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Astraptes galesus (Mabille, 1888)
- A. galesus galesus Peru, Ecuador
- A. galesus cassius Evans, 1952 Costa Rica
- Astraptes halesius (Hewitson, 1877) French Guiana, Peru
- Astraptes jaira (Butler, 1870) West Indies, Jamaica
- Astraptes janeira (Schaus, 1902) Brazil, Suriname, Colombia, Paraguay
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Astraptes latimargo (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
- A. latimargo latimargo Panama
- A. latimargo bifascia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
- A. latimargo tinda Evans, 1952 Brazil (Pará)
- Astraptes mabillei Steinhauser, 1989 Bolivia
- Astraptes megalurus (Mabille, 1877) Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia
- Astraptes naxos (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil, Colombia
- Astraptes palliolum (Druce, 1908) Costa Rica
- Astraptes phalaecus (Godman & Salvin, [1893]) Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica
- Astraptes talus (Cramer, [1777]) Central America to Brazil, Suriname, Cuba
- Astraptes tucuti (Williams, 1927) Mexico, Panama
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Astraptes xagua (Lucas, 1857)
- A. xagua xagua Cuba
- A. xagua christyis (Sharpe, 1898) Dominican Republic