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Quadrus cerialis
Male, dorsal
Male, ventral
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Quadrus
Species:	Q. cerialis
Binomial name
Quadrus cerialis (Stoll, )
Synonyms
Papilio cerialis Stoll, Pythonides cerialis Hesperia orcus Fabricius, 1793 Pythonides cerberus Hübner, Pythonides cerialis f. majorinus Draudt, 1922

Quadrus cerialis, the common blue-skipper or peppered blue skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Panama to Bolivia. The habitat consists of rainforests, cloud forests and humid deciduous forests at altitudes up to 1,400 metres.

References

1. Quadrus at funet.fi
2. Quadrus cerialis at Butterflies of the Andes

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