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Polites
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Polites

Polites is a genus of North American butterflies of the Hesperiidae family (skippers), subfamily Hesperiinae (grass skippers).

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Polites

subgenusPolites

Broken-Dashes

subgenusWallengrenia

Coa

subgenusCoa

Yvretta

subgenusYvretta

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 58504.