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New World Checkered-Skippers
Burnsius
Burnsius is a genus of New World checkered-skippers in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. The genus was erected by Nick V. Grishin in 2019. There are about 11 described species in Burnsius.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Common Checkered-Skipper and Allies
complexBurnsius communis

Tropical Checkered-Skipper
speciesBurnsius oileus

Orcus Checkered-Skipper
speciesBurnsius orcus

Desert Checkered-Skipper
speciesBurnsius philetas

Antillean Checkered-Skipper
speciesBurnsius crisia

Brenda Checkered-Skipper
speciesBurnsius brenda

Burnsius notatus
speciesBurnsius notatus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Burnsius in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 1038402.