Cephise

Cephise
Cephise and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subtribe:	Cephisina
Genus:	Cephise Evans, 1952

Cephise is a Neotropical genus of skipper butterflies of the subfamily Eudaminae, ^[1] within which it is placed in subtribe Cephisina. ^[2]

Species

Per Li et al. 2019, the genus contains the following species: ^[2]

• Cephise aelius (Plötz, 1880) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
• Cephise burnsi Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Espírito Santo).
• Cephise callias (Mabille, 1888)
• Cephise cephise (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Brazil, Peru
• Cephise glarus (Mabille, 1888) – Brazil (Pará)
• Cephise guatemalaensis (Freeman, 1977) – Guatemala, south Mexico
• Cephise impunctus Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Rondônia)
• Cephise maculatus Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Rondônia)
• Cephise malesedis Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Rondônia)
• Cephise mexicanus Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Mexico
• Cephise nuspesez Burns, 1996 – Mexico, Costa Rica
• Cephise procerus (Plötz, 1880) – Brazil (Pará), Mexico to Venezuela

References

1. Funet
2. Li, Wenlin; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Zhang, Jing; Hallwachs, Winnie; Janzen, Daniel H.; Grishin, Nick V. (26 March 2019). "Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (13). Supporting Information: Appendix pp.10–24. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.6232L. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1821304116 . PMC   6442542 . PMID   30877254.

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• images representing Cephise at Consortium for the Barcode of Life