Echelatus
Genus of butterflies
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Echelatus is a genus of spread-wing skippers in the family Hesperiidae.[1] It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Echelatus sempiternus, the common bluevent, which is found in North America.[2][3][4]
| Echelatus sempiternus | |
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| E. sempiternus ssp. sempiternus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Echelatus Godman & Salvin, [1894] |
| Species: | E. sempiternus |
| Binomial name | |
| Echelatus sempiternus | |
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Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:
- Echelatus sempiternus dilloni Bell & Comstock, 1948
- Echelatus sempiternus sempiternus (Butler & H. Druce, 1872)
- Echelatus sempiternus simplicior Möschler, 1876
