Helias

Short description: Genus of butterflies

Helias

Helias phalaenoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Hesperiidae
Tribe:  | Erynnini
Genus:  | Helias
Fabricius, 1807

Helias is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

## Species

Recognised species in the genus Helias include:[1]

* Helias phalaenoides (Herrich Schäffer, 1863)

### Former species

* Helias ascalaphus Staudinger, 1876 \- transferred to Staphylus ascalaphus (Staudinger, 1876)
* Helias pallida Felder, 1869 \- transferred to Eantis pallida (Felder, 1869)
* Helias satyrus C. and R. Felder, [1867] \- transferred to Timochreon satyrus (C. and R. Felder, [1867])

## References

1. ↑ Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56.

* Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Wikidata ☰ Q1358627 entry

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