Burnsius

Genus of butterflies

Burnsius

Orcus checkered skipper (Burnsius orcus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Hesperiidae
Subfamily:  | Pyrginae
Tribe:  | Pyrgini
Genus:  | Burnsius
Grishin, 2019

Burnsius is a genus of New World checkered-skippers in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. The genus was erected by Nick V. Grishin in 2019.

As a result of a 2019 study of the genomes of 250 representative species of skippers, the genus Burnsius was created to contain 12 related species formerly in the genus Pyrgus.[1] As of 2022, there were 14 species in Burnsius.[2]

## Species[edit]

These 14 species belong to the genus Burnsius:[2][3]

* Burnsius adepta (Plötz, 1884) (Central American checkered-skipper)
* Burnsius albezens Grishin, 2022 (White checkered-skipper)
* Burnsius brenda (Evans, 1942) (Brenda checkered-skipper)
* Burnsius burnsi Grishin, 2022 (Burns' checkered-skipper)
* Burnsius chloe (Evans, 1942) (Chloe checkered-skipper)
* Burnsius communis (Grote, 1872) (common checkered skipper)
* Burnsius crisia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865) (Antillean checkered-skipper)
* Burnsius notatus (Blanchard, 1852)
* Burnsius oileus (Linnaeus, 1767) (tropical checkered skipper)
* Burnsius orcus (Stoll, 1780) (orcus checkered-skipper)
* Burnsius orcynoides (Giacomelli, 1928)
* Burnsius orcynus Grishin, 2022
* Burnsius philetas (Edwards, 1881) (desert checkered-skipper)
* Burnsius titicaca (Reverdin, 1921) (Peruvian checkered-skipper)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Li, Wenlin; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Zhang, Jing; Hallwachs, Winnie; Janzen, Daniel H.; Grishin, Nick V. (2019). "Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (13). doi:10.1073/pnas.1821304116.
2. ^ a b Zhang, J; Cong, Q; Burns, JM; Grishin, NV (2022). "Checking the checkered taxonomy of Plötz's checkered skippers (Hesperiidae: Pyrgini)". Taxon Rep Int Lepid Surv. 10 (5). doi:10.5281/zenodo.6510282.
3. ^ Pelham, Jonathan P. (2021). A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (Report).

## Further reading[edit]

* Pelham, Jonathan P. (2008). "A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature". The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 40. ISSN 0022-4324.
* Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
* Warren, Andrew D.; Ogawa, Joshua R.; Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2009). "Revised classification of the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea) based on combined molecular and morphological data". Systematic Entomology. 34 (3): 467–523. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00463.x.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q96374143
* Wikispecies: Burnsius
* BOLD: 957854
* GBIF: 11024850
* NCBI: 2233704

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