Telemiades

Telemiades
	Depicted in Pieter Cramer and Caspar Stoll's Uitlandsche kapellen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Eudaminae
Genus:	Telemiades ; Hübner, [1819]
Type species
	Telemiades avitus ; (Stoll, 1781)
Synonyms
	PyrdalusMabille, 1903;

Last updated December 28, 2025

Telemiades is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Hesperiidae (subfamily Eudaminae).^[1]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Telemiades:^[2]

Telemiades amphion (Geyer, 1832)
- T. amphion amphion(Geyer, 1832) - Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela
- T. amphion pekahia(Hewitson, 1868) - Venezuela
- T. amphion misitheus(Mabille, 1888) - Peru
- T. amphion marpesus (Hewitson, 1876) - Brazil
Telemiades antiope (Plötz, 1882) - Suriname, Peru, Brazil
- T. amphion antiope(Plötz, 1882))
- T. amphion tosca(Evans, 1953)
Telemiades atlantiope Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Brazil, Argentina
Telemiades austini Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Mexico to Panama
Telemiades avitus (Stoll, 1781) - Mexico, Guianas, Suriname, Brazil, Argentina
Telemiades belli Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
Telemiades brazus Bell, 1949 - Brazil
Telemiades centrites (Hewitson, 1870) - Ecuador
Telemiades choricus (Schaus, 1902) - Mexico
Telemiades chrysorrhoea (Godman & Salvin, 1893)
Telemiades contra Evans, 1953 - Ecuador
Telemiades corbulo (Stoll, 1781)
Telemiades cryptus Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Colombia, Brazil
Telemiades dawkinsi Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Brazil
Telemiades delalande (Latreille, 1924) - Brazil, Costa Rica
Telemiades epicalus Hübner, 1819 - Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela
Telemiades esmeraldus Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Ecuador
Telemiades fides Bell, 1949
Telemiades gallius (Mabille, 1888) - Panama, Colombia
Telemiades lamasi Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Peru
Telemiades laogonus (Hewitson, 1876) - Brazil, Argentina
- T. laogonus laogunus(Hewitson, 1876) - Brazil, Argentina
- T. laogonus nicola(Plötz, 1882) - Brazil
Telemiades litanicus (Hewitson, 1876) - Brazil
Telemiades megallus Mabille, 1888 - Mexico, Panama, Colombia
Telemiades meris (Plötz, 1886) - Colombia
Telemiades mielkei Siewert & Casagrande, 2020 - Peru
Telemiades moa Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Brazil
Telemiades nicki Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2021 - Peru
Telemiades nicomedes (Möschler, 1879) - Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, French Guiana
Telemiades oiclus (Mabille, 1889)
Telemiades pallidus Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Brazil
Telemiades penidas (Hewitson, 1867) - Brazil, Suriname, Peru, Venezuela
Telemiades pseudotrenda Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Costa Rica
Telemiades quammeni Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Brazil
Telemiades sila Evans, 1953 - Venezuela
Telemiades squanda Evans, 1953 - Brazil
Telemiades trenda Evans, 1953
Telemiades vansa Evans, 1953 - Guyana
Telemiades vespasius (Fabricius, 1793) - Suriname, Brazil
Telemiades warreni Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande, 2020 - Peru

References

↑ Funet
↑ 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.

Siewert, Ricardo Russo; Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik; Casagrande, Mirna Martins (9 January 2020). "Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Telemiades Hübner, [1819 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Eudaminae), with descriptions of fourteen new species". Zootaxa. 4721 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4721.1.1. PMID 32230645. S2CID 212827892.
Siewert, Ricardo Russo; Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik; Casagrande, Mirna Martins (3 May 2021). "Description of a new species of Telemiades Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from Peru belonging to the "centrites group"". Tropical Lepidoptera Research. 31 (1): 7–10. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4721604.

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[1] Funet

[Li-2019-2] 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.

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