Phocides pigmalion

Phocides pigmalion
Image of Mangrove Skipper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Phocides
Species:
P. pigmalion
Binomial name
Phocides pigmalion
(Cramer, [1779])
Synonyms
List
  • Papilio pigmalion Cramer, [1779]
  • Erycides pigmalion (Cramer, [1779])
  • Phocides disparilis Röber, 1925
  • Phocides iocularis Röber, 1925
  • Phocides vulcanides Röber, 1925
  • Phocides tenuistriga Mabille & Boullet, 1912
  • Phocides aberrans Röber, 1925
  • Phocides jemadides Röber, 1925

Phocides pigmalion, the pigmalion skipper is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the from Central America to Argentina. There is historical confusion with lineages that are subsequently treated as Phocides batabano or Phocides bicolora.

Subspecies

  • Phocides pigmalion pigmalion (Surinam, Colombia, Peru, Brazil)
  • Pocides pigmalion hewitsonius (Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Bolivia)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.