Epicharis Klug, 1807
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Querétaro de Arteaga, Sinaloa); Neotropical Region: Argentina (Misiones), Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Amapá [Macapá, Serra Do Navio], Amazonas [Itacoatiara, Manacapuru, Maués, Santo Antônio Do Içá, São Gabriel Da Cachoeira, São Paulo De Olivença, Tabatinga, Tefé, Tonantins], Bahia [Feira De Santana, Salvador], Ceará, Distrito Federal [Distrito Federal], Espírito Santo [Colatina, Santa Leopoldina], Goiás [Anápolis, Aragarças, Bonfinópolis, Goianápolis, Goiânia, Leopoldo De Bulhões, Nerópolis, Senador Canedo, Terezópolis De Goiás], Maranhão [Barreirinhas], Mato Grosso [Campo Novo Do Parecis, Chapada Dos Guimarães, Comodoro, Cuiabá, Nova Lacerda], Mato Grosso do Sul [Bodoquena, Bonito, Ivinhema, Porto Murtinho], Minas Gerais [Araguari, Araxá, Belo Horizonte, Brasilândia De Minas, Divinópolis, Felixlândia, Igarapé, Lagoa Santa, Marliéria, Minas Novas, Passa Quatro, São Roque De Minas, Três Marias, Uberlândia, Varginha], Paraná [Ponta Grossa], Paraíba, Pará [Chaves, Faro, Santarém, São Geraldo Do Araguaia, Óbidos], Pernambuco [Caruaru], Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul [Bento Gonçalves, Nova Petrópolis, Viamão], Rio de Janeiro [Itatiaia, Rio De Janeiro], Rondônia [Alta Floresta DOeste], Roraima, Santa Catarina [Blumenau, Joinville, São Francisco Do Sul], São Paulo [Campinas, Corumbataí, Cosmópolis, Guarulhos, Jundiaí, Ourinhos, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Claro, São Paulo, São Sebastião, São Vicente, Ubatuba], Tocantins [Esperantina]), Colombia (Antioquia, Boyaca, Distrito Capital, Magdalena, Valle del Cauca), Costa Rica (Guanacaste, Heredia, Puntarenas, San José), Ecuador (Pichincha, Tungurahua), El Salvador, French Guiana (Cayenne), Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico (Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan), Nicaragua, Panama (Chiriquí, Coclé, Panamá), Paraguay, Peru (Junín, Loreto, San Martín), Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (Montevideo), Venezuela (Mérida)
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