Argopteron

Argopteron
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Heteropterinae
Genus:	Argopteron Watson, 1893

Argopteron is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Recognised species in the genus Argopteron include: ^[1]

• Argopteron aureipennis (Blanchard, 1852)
• Argopteron aureuma Peña, 1968
• Argopteron puelmae (Calvert, 1888)

Former species

• Argopteron xiccaDyar, 1913 - transferred to Ladda xicca (Dyar, 1913) ^[2]

References

1. "Argopteron Watson, 1893". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
2. Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi . 0731: 1–56.

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database