Heliopetes

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Heliopetes
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Heliopetes arsalte, veined white-skipper
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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
LeucoscirtesScudder, 1872

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

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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)

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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.


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