Tigasis

For greek myth figure, see Tigasis (mythology).

Tigasis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subtribe:	Moncina
Genus:	Tigasis Godman, 1900 (in Godman & Salvin, [1900])
Synonyms
AritaEvans, 1955

Tigasis is a Neotropical genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Recognised species include:

• Tigasis arita (Schaus, 1902) ^[1]
• Tigasis colomus (E. Bell, 1941)
• Tigasis corope (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
• Tigasis perloides (Plötz, 1882) ^[2]
• Tigasis physcoa (Hewitson, 1868)
• Tigasis polistion (Schaus, 1902)
• Tigasis serra (Hewitson, 1868)
• Tigasis wellingi (Evans, 1955) ^[1]
• Tigasis zalates Godman, [1900] ^[3]

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.
2. Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Song, Leina; Grishin, Nick (2024). "Taxonomic advances driven by the genomic analysis of butterflies". The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey. 11 (7): 1–43.
3. Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi . 0731: 1–56.

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Data related to Tigasis at Wikispecies