Cephise
{{Short description|Genus of butterflies}}
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| image_caption = Cephise and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
| taxon = Cephise
| authority = Evans, 1952
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Cephise is a Neotropical genus of skipper butterflies of the subfamily Eudaminae,[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/cephise/index.html Funet] within which it is placed in subtribe Cephisina.{{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 }}
Species
Per Li et al. 2019, the genus contains the following species:
- Cephise aelius (Plötz, 1880) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
- Cephise burnsi Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Espírito Santo).
- Cephise callias (Mabille, 1888)
- Cephise cephise (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Brazil, Peru
- Cephise glarus (Mabille, 1888) – Brazil (Pará)
- Cephise guatemalaensis (Freeman, 1977) – Guatemala, south Mexico
- Cephise impunctus Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Rondônia)
- Cephise maculatus Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Rondônia)
- Cephise malesedis Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Rondônia)
- Cephise mexicanus Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Mexico
- Cephise nuspesez Burns, 1996 – Mexico, Costa Rica
- Cephise procerus (Plötz, 1880) – Brazil (Pará), Mexico to Venezuela
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]
External links
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- [http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=6719 images representing Cephise at Consortium for the Barcode of Life]
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Category:Hesperiidae of South America
Category:Taxa named by William Harry Evans
Category:Taxa described in 1952
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