Phocides

Not to be confused with Phocidae, a family of seals, or Pholcidae, a family of spiders.

Phocides
Phocides pigmalion
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Phocidini
Genus:	Phocides Hübner, [1819]
Species
See text.
Synonyms
ErycidesHübner, [1819] DyseniusScudder, 1872

Phocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini, ^[1] of which it is the namesake genus.

The distribution of the genus is primarily Neotropical, but a few species occur in the Nearctic.

Species

• Phocides batabano (Lucas, 1857)
  • P. batabano okeechobee(Worthington, 1881) - Florida
  • P. batabano batabanoides(Holland, 1903) - Bahamas
  • P. batabano batabano(Lucas, 1857) - Cuba, Cayman
• Phocides belus Godman & Salvin, [1893] - Mexico
• Phocides bicolora (Boddaert, 1783) - Hispanola
• Phocides charon (C. & R. Felder, 1859) - Brazil, Paraguay
• Phocides distans (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
  • P. distans distans - Venezuela
  • P. distans licinus (Möschler, 1879) - Colombia, Panama
  • P. distans silva Evans, 1952 - Peru
• Phocides johnsoni Bell, 1947 - Colombia
• Phocides lincea (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) - Brazil
• Phocides metrodorus Bell, 1932
  • P. metrodorus metrodorus - Colombia
  • P. metrodorus metronEvans, 1952 - Paraguay
  • P. metrodorus nigrescens Bell, 1938 - Colombia
• Phocides novalis Evans, 1952 - Peru
• Phocides oreides (Hewitson, [1875])
  • P. oreides colombianaBell, 1938 - Colombia
  • P. oreides oreides(Hewitson, [1875]) - Peru, Bolivia
• Phocides padrona Evans, 1952 - Peru
• Phocides partia Evans, 1952 - Peru
• Phocides perkinsi (Kaye, 1931) - Jamaica
• Phocides perillus (Mabille, 1888) - Colombia
• Phocides petroleum Siewert, Leviski, Mielke & Casagrande, 2018 - Colombia
• Phocides pialia (Hewitson, 1857) - Mexico to Brazil
  • P. pialia pialia - Brazil
  • P. pialia intermediaMielke, 1992 - Brazil (Minas Gerais)
  • P. pialia maximus(Mabille, 1888) - Brazil
• Phocides pigmalion (Cramer, [1779])–
  • P. pigmalion pigmalion(Cramer, [1779]) - Central America to Argentina
  • P. pigmalion hewitsonius(Mabille, 1883) - Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Bolivia
• Phocides polybius (Fabricius, 1793)– guava skipper
  • P. polybius polybius - Suriname, Guyana
  • P. polybius lilea(Reakirt, [1867]) - Texas, Mexico, Central America to Colombia, Brazil
  • P. polybius phanias(Burmeister, 1880) - Argentina, Brazil
• Phocides thermus (Mabille, 1883)
  • P. thermus thermus - Colombia
  • P. thermus valgus(Mabille, 1883) - French Guiana
  • P. thermus bellina Evans, 1952 - Ecuador
• Phocides urania (Westwood, [1852]) - Mexico, Texas
• Phocides vida (Butler, 1872) - Costa Rica, Panama
• Phocides vulcanides Röber, 1925 - Colombia
• Phocides yokhara (Butler, 1870)
  • P. yokhara yokhara - Peru
  • P. yokhara charonotis (Hewitson, 1874) - Bolivia, Peru
  • P. yokhara dryas Le Cerf, 1922 - Peru
  • P. yokhara inca Le Cerf, 1922 - Peru

References

1. 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
• Phocides at funet

External links

• Images representing Phocides at Consortium for the Barcode of Life