Heliopetes

Heliopetes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

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Heliopetes

Synonyms
  • Leucoscirtes Scudder, 1872

Species

  • Heliopetes alana (Reakirt, 1868)
  • Heliopetes arsalte (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Heliopetes chimbo Evans, 1953
  • Heliopetes ericetorum (Boisduval, 1852)
  • Heliopetes laviana (Hewitson, 1868)
  • Heliopetes leucola (Hewitson, 1868)
  • Heliopetes libra Evans, 1944
  • Heliopetes macaira (Reakirt, [1867])
  • Heliopetes marginata Hayward, 1940
  • Heliopetes nivella (Mabille, 1883)
  • Heliopetes ochroleuca J. Zikán, 1938
  • Heliopetes omrina (Butler, 1870)
  • Heliopetes petrus (Hübner, [1819])
  • Heliopetes purgia Schaus, 1902

References

  1. Heliopetes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • Bell, E.L., 1937: New genera and species of Neotropical Hesperiidae with notes on some others (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). American Museum Novitates 914: 1-17. Full article: .
  • Evans, W.H. 1944: An analysis of the genus Heliopetes Billberg (Lepidoptera-Hesperiidae) with genitalia drawings. Entomol., London, 77: 179-185.
  • Lamas, G., 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea.


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