Chioides

Chioides
Chioides albofasciatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Eudaminae
Genus:	Chioides Lindsey, 1921 [1] [2]
Type species
Eudamus albofasciatus Hewitson, 1867

Chioides is a mainly Neotropical genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae)

They range from the south-western United States to Argentina and there are several Antillean endemic species. They are robust and have hindwing "tails".^{[ citation needed ]}

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Chioides: ^[3]

• Chioides albofasciatus (Hewitson, 1867)
• Chioides catillus (Cramer, 1780)
• Chioides churchi E. Bell & W. Comstock, 1948
• Chioides cinereus (Mabille & Vuillot, 1891)
• Chioides concinnus (Mabille, 1877)
• Chioides iverna Evans, 1952
• Chioides ixion (Plötz, 1881)
• Chioides marmorosa (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865)
• Chioides vintra Evans, 1952
• Chioides zilpa (Butler, 1874)

Gallery

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  C. c. catillus
  White-striped longtail, Brazil
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  C. catillus albius
  Blurry-striped longtail, Panama

References

1. Lindsey, Arthur Ward (1921). "The Hesperioidea of America North of Mexico: A Generic Revision and Synopsis of the Species". University of Iowa Studies in Natural History. 9 (4): 25–26.
2. Chioides at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
3. 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.

External links

• Images representing Chioides at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• Funet Taxonomy, distribution