Cogia cajeta, the yellow-haired skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. Subspecies cajeta is found in Mexico in southern Veracruz, eastern Oaxaca, Tabasco and north-eastern Chiapas. Subspecies eluina is found from Jalisco and the Yucatan Peninsula south to Costa Rica.
| Yellow-haired skipper | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Cogia |
| Species: | C. cajeta
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| Binomial name | |
| Cogia cajeta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
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Subspecies
edit- Cogia cajeta cajeta (Mexico)
- Cogia cajeta eluina (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua)
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