Papias (butterfly)

Papias
Papias phaeomelas in Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subtribe:	Moncina
Genus:	Papias Godman in Godman & Salvin, [1900]
Synonyms
MnasilusGodman, 1900

Papias is a Neotropical genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Papias:

• Papias allubita (Butler, 1877)
• Papias amyrna (Mabille, 1891) ^[1]
• Papias cascatona Mielke, 1992 - Brazil
• Papias dictys Godman, [1900] - Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama
• Papias integra (Mabille, 1891) ^[1]
• Papias phaeomelas (Hübner, [1831]) - Mexico to Brazil, Trinidad, French Guiana
• Papias phainis Godman, [1900] - Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, Guyana
• Papias projectus Bell, 1942 - Ecuador
• Papias quigua Evans, 1955 - Venezuela
• Papias subcostulata (Herrich-Schäffer, 1870) - Brazil, Surinam, Honduras, Colombia, Bolivia
• Papias tristissimus Schaus, 1902 - Peru

References

1. Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2022-03-14). "Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 2022 (921). PMC   8975183 . PMID   35370352.

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Funet