Pythonides lancea

{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}

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| image_caption = Pythonides lancea observed in Brazil in 2018

| genus = Pythonides

| species = lancea

| authority = (Hewitson, 1868)

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|Leucochitonea lancea|1868

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Pythonides lancea is a species of butterfly in the skipper family, found in Brazil and in Argentina.{{Cite journal|last1=Mielke|first1=OHH|last2=Emery|first2=EDO|last3=Pinheiro|first3=CEG|date=2008|title=The butterflies Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera, Hesperioidea) from the Federal District, Brazil.|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250033903|journal=Brazilian Journal of Entomology|volume=52|issue=2|pages=283–288|via=ResearchGate}}{{Cite journal|last=Núñez Bustos|first=Ezequiel O.|date=2009|title=Daytime butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea Y Hesperioidea) from the Iguazu National Park, Misiones Province, Argentina.|url=http://journals.fcla.edu/troplep/article/viewFile/90264/86619|journal=Tropical Lepidoptera Research|volume=19|issue=2|pages=71–81}}

Pythonides lancea was first described in 1868 by William Chapman Hewitson and named Leucochitonea lancea, after realizing this species was different from P. jovianus previously described by Pieter Cramer.{{Cite book|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044107309270;view=1up;seq=67|title=Descriptions of one hundred new species of Hesperidae|last=Hewitson|first=William Chapman|publisher=John Van Voorst|year=1868|location=London|pages=47|author-link=William Chapman Hewitson}}