Tarsoctenus

Tarsoctenus
Tarsoctenus species and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Entheini
Genus:	Tarsoctenus Watson, 1893

Tarsoctenus is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Hesperiidae, ^[1] in which it is placed in tribe Entheini. ^[2]

Species

• Tarsoctenus corytus (Cramer, [1777]) Suriname to Colombia, Brazil (Amazonas)
  • T. corytus corytus Suriname
  • T. corytus corba Evans, 1952 Peru
  • T. corytus gaudialis (Hewitson, 1876) Panama
• Tarsoctenus papias (Hewitson, 1857) Brazil (Amazonas)
• Tarsoctenus praecia (Hewitson, 1857) Brazil
  • T. praecia praecia Brazil (Pará)
  • T. praecia plutia (Hewitson, 1857) Brazil (Amazonas)
  • T. praecia rufibasis Boullet, 1910 French Guiana
  • T. praecia luna Evans, 1952 Bolivia

References

1. Funet
2. 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

External links

• images representing Tarsoctenus at Consortium for the Barcode of Life