Cephise

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Cephise
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Cephise and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
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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]

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Species

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

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References

  1. ↑ Funet
  2. 1 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.1821304116 . Retrieved 6 September 2022.


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