Heliopetes

Heliopetes
Heliopetes arsalte, veined white-skipper
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Pyrginae
Tribe: Pyrgini
Genus: Heliopetes
Billberg, 1820[1]
Subgenera
  • Heliopetes Billberg, 1820
  • Heliopyrgus
  • Leucoscirtes
Synonyms
Leucoscirtes Scudder, 1872

Heliopetes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.[2][3]

Species

These species belong to the genus Heliopetes:[4]

Heliopetes alana (Reakirt, 1868) (alana white-skipper)
Heliopetes americanus (Blanchard, 1852)
Heliopetes arsalte (Linnaeus, 1758) (veined white-skipper)
Heliopetes chimbo Evans, 1953
Heliopetes domicella (Erichson, 1849) (Erichson's white-skipper)
Heliopetes ericetorum (Boisduval, 1852) (northern white-skipper)
Heliopetes laviana (Hewitson, 1868) (laviana white-skipper)
Heliopetes leucola (Hewitson, 1868)
Heliopetes libra Evans, 1944
Heliopetes macaira (Reakirt, 1867) (Turk's-cap white-skipper)
Heliopetes marginata Hayward, 1940
Heliopetes nivella (Mabille, 1883)
Heliopetes ochroleuca J. Zikán, 1938
Heliopetes omrina (A. Butler, 1870) (stained white-skipper)
Heliopetes orbigera (Mabille, 1888)
Heliopetes petrus (Hübner, [1819])
Heliopetes purgia Schaus, 1902
Heliopetes sublinea Schaus, 1902 (east-mexican white-skipper)

References

  1. ^ Heliopetes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ "Heliopetes genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  3. ^ "Heliopetes". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  4. ^ Li, Wenlin; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Zhang, Jing; et al. (2019). "Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (13): 6232–6237. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.6232L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1821304116. PMC 6442542. PMID 30877254.
  • Bell, E.L., 1937: New genera and species of Neotropical Hesperiidae with notes on some others (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). American Museum Novitates 914: 1–17. Full article: [1].
  • Evans, W.H. 1944: An analysis of the genus Heliopetes Billberg (Lepidoptera-Hesperiidae) with genitalia drawings. Entomol., London, 77: 179–185.
  • Lamas, G., 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea.
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