Cecropterus
{{Short description|Genus of butterflies}}
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| image_caption = Cecropterus lyciades
| taxon = Cecropterus
| authority = Herrich-Schäffer, 1869
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Cecropterus is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae, within which it is placed in subtribe Eudamina.{{cite journal |last1=Li |first1=Wenlin |last2=Cong |first2=Qian |last3=Shen |first3=Jinhui |last4=Zhang |first4=Jing |last5=Hallwachs |first5=Winnie |last6=Janzen |first6=Daniel H. |last7=Grishin |first7=Nick V. |title=Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=26 March 2019 |volume=116 |issue=13 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1821304116 |pmid=30877254 |pmc=6442542 |bibcode=2019PNAS..116.6232L |at=Supporting Information: Appendix pp.10–24|doi-access=free }} It has three subgenera: Cecropterus, Thorybes and Murgaria.
Species
As of 2019, the genus holds the following species:
Subgenus Cecropterus:
- Cecropterus acanthopoda (O. Mielke, 1977)
- Cecropterus rinta (Evans, 1952)
- Cecropterus zarex (Hübner, 1818)
- Cecropterus longipennis Plötz, 1882
- Cecropterus evenus (Ménétriés, 1855)
Subgenus Thorybes:
- Cecropterus lyciades (Geyer, 1832)
- Cecropterus casica (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
- Cecropterus tehuacana (Draudt, 1922)
- Cecropterus confusis (E. Bell, 1923)
- Cecropterus bathyllus (J. E. Smith, 1797)
- Cecropterus mexicana (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
- Cecropterus mexicana aemilea (Skinner, 1893)
- Cecropterus mexicana blanca (Scott, 1981)
- Cecropterus mexicana nevada (Scudder, 1872)
- Cecropterus mexicana dobra (Evans, 1952)
- Cecropterus mexicana mexicana (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
- Cecropterus mexicana ducia (Evans, 1952)
- Cecropterus diversus (E. Bell, 1927)
- Cecropterus pylades (Scudder, 1870)
- Cecropterus pylades indistinctus (Austin & J. Emmel, 1998)
- Cecropterus pylades albosuffusa (H. Freeman, 1943)
- Cecropterus pylades pylades (Scudder, 1870)
- Cecropterus drusius (W. H. Edwards, [1884])
- Cecropterus cincta Plötz, 1882
- Cecropterus vectilucis (A. Butler, 1872)
- Cecropterus pseudocellus (Coolidge & Clemence, [1910])
- Cecropterus palliolum (H. Druce, 1908)
- Cecropterus egregius (A. Butler, 1870)
- Cecropterus egregius egregius (A. Butler, 1870)
- Cecropterus egregius coxeyi (R. Williams, 1931)
- Cecropterus virescens (Mabille, 1877)
- Cecropterus dorantes (Stoll, 1790)
- Cecropterus dorantes calafia (R. Williams, 1926)
- Cecropterus dorantes dorantes (Stoll, 1790)
- Cecropterus dorantes cramptoni (W. Comstock, 1944)
- Cecropterus dorantes santiago (Lucas, 1857)
- Cecropterus dorantes galapagensis (F. Williams, 1911)
- Cecropterus obscurus (Hewitson, 1867)
Subgenus Murgaria:
- Cecropterus albociliatus (Mabille, 1877)
- Cecropterus albociliatus albociliatus (Mabille, 1877)
- Cecropterus albociliatus leucophrys (Mabille, 1898)
- Cecropterus albociliatus nocera (Plötz, 1882)
- Cecropterus toxeus (Plötz, 1882)
- Cecropterus jalapus (Plötz, 1881)
- Cecropterus athesis (Hewitson, 1867)
- Cecropterus phalaecus (Godman & Salvin, 1893)
- Cecropterus reductus (N. Riley, 1919)
- Cecropterus doryssus (Swainson, 1831)
- Cecropterus doryssus chales (Godman & Salvin, 1893)
- Cecropterus doryssus doryssus (Swainson, 1831)
- Cecropterus doryssus albicuspis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
- Cecropterus albimargo (Mabille, 1875)
- Cecropterus takuta (Evans, 1952)
- Cecropterus rica (Evans, 1952)
- Cecropterus trebia (Möschler, 1879)
- Cecropterus carmelita (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
- Cecropterus barra (Evans, 1952)
References
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- [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList3.dsml?searchPageURL=index.dsml&SUPERFAMIL=&FAMILYqtype=starts+with&FAMILY=hesperiidae&SUBFAMILYqtype=starts+with&SUBFAMILY=&TRIBEqtype=starts+with&TRIBE=&SUBTRIBEqtype=starts+with&SUBTRIBE=&GENUSqtype=starts+with&GENUS=&AUTHORqtype=starts+with&AUTHOR=&YEARqtype=equals&YEAR=&sort=GENUS Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database]
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Category:Taxa named by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer
Category:Taxa described in 1869
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