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| Phocides pigmalion | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Phocidini |
| Genus: | Phocides Hübner, |
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Phocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini, 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 belus Godman & Salvin, - Mexico
- 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 metron Evans, 1952 - Paraguay
- P. metrodorus nigrescens Bell, 1938 - Colombia
- Phocides novalis Evans, 1952 - Peru
- Phocides oreides (Hewitson, )
- P. oreides colombiana Bell, 1938 - Colombia
- P. oreides oreides (Hewitson, ) - 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 intermedia Mielke, 1992 - Brazil (Minas Gerais)
- P. pialia maximus (Mabille, 1888) - Brazil
- Phocides pigmalion (Cramer, ) – mangrove skipper – south Florida to Argentina, Antilles, Colombia, Mexico
- P. pigmalion pigmalion (Cramer, )
- P. pigmalion bicolora (Boddaert, 1783)
- P. pigmalion batabano (Lucas, 1857) - Cuba, Tropical America
- P. pigmalion okeechobee (Worthington, 1881) - Florida
- P. pigmalion hewitsonius (Mabille, 1883) - Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Bolivia
- P. pigmalion batabanoides (Holland, 1903) - Bahamas
- Phocides polybius (Fabricius, 1793) – guava skipper – southern Texas, Mexico to Argentina, Central America, South America
- P. polybius polybius - Suriname, Guyana
- P. polybius lilea (Reakirt, ) - Texas, Mexico to Colombia, Brazil
- P. polybius phanias (Burmeister, 1880) - Argentina, Brazil
- Phocides thermus (Mabille, 1883) - Central America
- P. thermus thermus - Colombia
- P. thermus valgus (Mabille, 1883) - French Guiana
- P. thermus bellina Evans, 1952 - Ecuador
- Phocides urania (Westwood, ) - 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
- 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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