Leona

Leona is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Taxonomy

The genus was treated as a synonym of Caenides by Lindsey & Miller in 1965 and by Ackery et al. in 1995. It was later treated as a valid genus by Larsen in 2005.^[1]

Species

• Leona allyni (Miller, 1971)
• Leona halma Evans, 1937
• Leona leonora (Plötz, 1879)
• Leona meloui (Riley, 1926)
• Leona na (Lindsey & Miller, 1965)
• Leona stoehri (Karsch, 1893)

Former species

• Leona binoevatus (Mabille, 1891) - transferred to Lennia lena (Mabille, 1891)
• Leona lena Evans, 1937 - transferred to Lennia lena (Evans, 1937)
• Leona lissa Evans, 1937 - transferred to Lissia lissa (Evans, 1937)
• Leona lota Evans, 1937 - transferred to Lennia lota (Evans, 1937)
• Leona luehderi (Plötz, 1879) - transferred to Lissia luehderi (Plötz, 1879)
• Leona maracanda (Hewitson, 1876) - transferred to Lennia maracanda (Hewitson, 1876)

References

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