Phocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini,[1] 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 batabano (Lucas, 1857)
- P. batabano okeechobee (Worthington, 1881) – Florida
- P. batabano batabanoides (Holland, 1903) – Bahamas
- P. batabano batabano (Lucas, 1857) – Cuba, Cayman
- Phocides belus Godman & Salvin, [1893] – Mexico
- Phocides bicolora (Boddaert, 1783) – Hispanola
- 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, [1875])
- P. oreides colombiana Bell, 1938 – Colombia
- P. oreides oreides (Hewitson, [1875]) – 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, [1779]) –
- P. pigmalion pigmalion (Cramer, [1779]) – Central America to Argentina
- P. pigmalion hewitsonius (Mabille, 1883) – Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Bolivia
- Phocides polybius (Fabricius, 1793) – guava skipper
- P. polybius polybius – Suriname, Guyana
- P. polybius lilea (Reakirt, [1867]) – Texas, Mexico, Central America to Colombia, Brazil
- P. polybius phanias (Burmeister, 1880) – Argentina, Brazil
- Phocides thermus (Mabille, 1883)
- P. thermus thermus – Colombia
- P. thermus valgus (Mabille, 1883) – French Guiana
- P. thermus bellina Evans, 1952 – Ecuador
- Phocides urania (Westwood, [1852]) – 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.