Phocides
{{Short description|Genus of butterflies}}
{{distinguish|text = Phocidae, a family of seals, or Pholcidae, a family of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Phocides pigmalion in Secret Woods.JPG
| image_caption = Phocides pigmalion
| taxon = Phocides
| authority = Hübner, [1819]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text.
| synonyms =
- Erycides Hübner, [1819]
- Dysenius Scudder, 1872
}}
Phocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini,{{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 }} 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
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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]
- [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/phocides/ Phocides at funet]
External links
- [http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=6784 Images representing Phocides at Consortium for the Barcode of Life]
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Category:Hesperiidae of South America
Category:Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
Category:Taxa described in 1819
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