Phocides

Genus of butterflies

Not to be confused with Phocidae, a family of seals, or Pholcidae, a family of spiders.

Phocides

Phocides pigmalion
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Hesperiidae
Tribe:  | Phocidini
Genus:  | Phocides
Hübner, [1819]
Species

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,[1] of which it is the namesake genus.

The distribution of the genus is primarily Neotropical, but a few species occur in the Nearctic.

## Species

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* 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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Wikispecies has information related to Phocides.

1. ^ Li, Wenlin; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Zhang, Jing; Hallwachs, Winnie; Janzen, Daniel H.; Grishin, Nick V. (26 March 2019). "Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (13). Supporting Information: Appendix pp.10–24. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.6232L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1821304116. PMC 6442542. PMID 30877254.

* Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
* Phocides at funet

## External links

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* Images representing Phocides at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Taxon identifiers

Phocides|

* Wikidata: Q1758026
* Wikispecies: Phocides
* BioLib: 404676
* BOLD: 6784
* BugGuide: 5445
* ButMoth: 22847.0
* CoL: 92JVP
* EoL: 20550
* GBIF: 1947532
* iNaturalist: 69943
* Insecta.pro: 26591
* IRMNG: 1369613
* ITIS: 706442
* LepIndex: 186577
* NCBI: 355071
* Open Tree of Life: 390718

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