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Genus of butterflies

Potamanaxas

Potamanaxas thoria. Río Alpayacu, Mera, Ecuador.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Pyrginae
Tribe:	Erynnini
Genus:	Potamanaxas Lindsey, 1925
Synonyms
Potamanax Watson, 1893

Crisppatch skipper
P. tschotky, Colombia

Potamanaxas is a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Potamanaxas andraemon (Mabille, 1898)
Potamanaxas bana Bell, 1956
Potamanaxas effusa (Draudt, 1922)
Potamanaxas flavofasciata (Hewitson, 1870)
Potamanaxas frenda Evans, 1953
Potamanaxas hirta (Weeks, 1901)
Potamanaxas laoma (Hewitson, 1870)
Potamanaxas latrea (Hewitson, 1875)
Potamanaxas melicertes (Godman & Salvin, )
Potamanaxas paralus (Godman & Salvin, )
Potamanaxas quira Bell, 1956
Potamanaxas thestia (Hewitson, 1870)
Potamanaxas thoria (Hewitson, 1870)
Potamanaxas tunga Bell, 1956
Potamanaxas unifasciata (C. & R. Felder, 1867)
Potamanaxas xantholeuce (Mabille, 1888)

References

Potamanaxas at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Bell, E.L., 1956: Descriptions of some new species of neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). American Museum Novitates 1778: 1-13. Full article: .

External links

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Taxon identifiers
Potamanaxas	Wikidata: Q1766288 Wikispecies: Potamanaxas BioLib: 700625 BOLD: 3285 ButMoth: 23754.0 CoL: 92KHC EoL: 20248 GBIF: 1950992 iNaturalist: 247715 IRMNG: 1004515 LepIndex: 187081 NCBI: 355094 Open Tree of Life: 749429

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