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Firetips or firetail skippers are the tribe Pyrrhopygini of the skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae). The roughly 150 species are found only in the Neotropics, with the exception of one species which just reaches into the USA. Their common names refer to the red tuft at the end of the abdomen of many Pyrrhopygini.〔Brower (2007)〕 They were formerly treated as distinct subfamily Pyrrhopyginae. But they actually belong to the large and diverse spread-winged skipper subfamily (Pyrginae), as the pyrgine tribe Tagiadini is their closest living relative.〔 ==Subtribes== Of the four recognized subtribes of firetail skippers, one (the Zoniina) is monotypic, containing only the species ''Zonia zonia''. The subtribes are: * Oxynetrina * Passovina * Pyrrhopygina * Zoniina 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「firetips」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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