Baeotis is a butterfly genus in the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Americas. Baeotis are tiny (25–40 mm.), black and yellow, sometimes also white and black butterflies flying about in the sunshine during day-time, with a delicate body, a somewhat projecting apex of the forewing and an extraordinarily short cell of the hindwing, which is not even half as large as the cell of the forewing.

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