Pyrgus

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Grizzled skippers
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Grizzled skipper (Pyrgus malvae )
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Pyrgini
Genus: Pyrgus
Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms
  • UrbanusHübner, [1806] (suppressed)
  • ScelotrixRambur, 1858
  • BremeriaTutt, 1906
  • TeleomorphaWarren, 1926
  • HemiteleomoraphaWarren, 1926
  • AteleomorphaWarren, 1926

Pyrgus is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the grizzled skippers. The name "checkered" or "chequered skipper" may also be applied to some species, but also refers to species in the genera Burnsius and Carterocephalus . They occur in the Holarctic with an additional group of species extending to the Neotropic.

In 2019, most of the species of Pyrgus found in the North, Central, or South America were moved to the genera Burnsius , Chirgus , and Heliopetes . The remaining Pyrgus species found in the New World are Pyrgus centaureae, ruralis, scriptura, and xanthus. [1] [2]

Species

These species belong to the genus Pyrgus: [1] [3] [4] [5] [6]

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. "Pyrgus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  3. "Pyrgus". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  4. Zhang, J; Cong, Q; Burns, JM; Grishin, NV (2022). "Checking the checkered taxonomy of Plötz's checkered skippers (Hesperiidae: Pyrgini)". Taxon Rep Int Lepid Surv. 10 (5). doi:10.5281/zenodo.6510282. PMC   9076161 . PMID   35530660.
  5. Pelham, Jonathan P. (2021). A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (Report).
  6. Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Opler, Paul A.; et al. (2019). "Changes to North American butterfly names" (PDF). The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey. 8 (2): 1–12. ISSN   2643-4806. PMC   8570546 . PMID   34746798.

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