Polites (butterfly)

Genus of butterflies

Polites

Tawny-edged skipper (Polites themistocles), male

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Hesperiidae
Subfamily:  | Hesperiinae
Genus:  | Polites
Scudder, 1872
Synonyms

Hedone (Scudder, 1872)
Limochores (Scudder, 1872)
Poanopsis (Godman, 1900)
Pyrrhosidia (Scudder, 1874)
Yvretta (Hemming, 1935)

Polites is a genus of North American butterflies of the family Hesperiidae (skippers), subfamily Hesperiinae (grass skippers).

## Species

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Listed alphabetically within groups:[1]

The themistocles species group:

* Polites draco (W.H. Edwards, 1871) – draco skipper
* Polites mardon (W.H. Edwards, 1881) – Mardon skipper, Cascades skipper or little Oregon skipper
* Polites norae MacNeill, 1993
* Polites peckius (W. Kirby, 1837) – Peck's skipper or yellowpatch skipper
* Polites sabuleti (Boisduval, 1852) – sandhill skipper or saltgrass skipper
* Polites themistocles (Latreille, 1824) – tawny-edged skipper

The origenes species group:

* Polites mystic (W.H. Edwards, 1863) – long dash skipper
* Polites origenes (Fabricius, 1793) – crossline skipper
* Polites pupillus (Plötz, 1882)
* Polites puxillius (Mabille, 1891)
* Polites sonora (Scudder, 1872) – Sonoran skipper

The rhesus species group:

* Polites carus (Edwards, 1883) – desert gray skipper, Carus skipper
* Polites rhesus (W.H. Edwards, 1878) – Rhesus skipper
* Polites subreticulata (Plötz, 1883)

The vibex species group:

* Polites vibex (Geyer, [1832]) – whirlabout

Unnamed species group:

* Polites baracoa (Lucas, 1857) – Baracoa skipper
* Polites bittiae Lindsey, 1925
* Polites vibicoides de Jong, 1983

## References

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1. ^ Polites, funet.fi

## External links

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Wikispecies has information related to Polites (butterfly).

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polites.

* Grass Skippers, Butterflies and Moths of North America

Taxon identifiers

Polites|

* Wikidata: Q5410827
* Wikispecies: Polites
* BioLib: 644072
* BOLD: 6911
* BugGuide: 3245
* ButMoth: 23558.0
* CoL: 92KCF
* EoL: 20718
* GBIF: 1943941
* iNaturalist: 58504
* Insecta.pro: 26785
* IRMNG: 1444474
* ITIS: 188614
* LepIndex: 186800
* NCBI: 291694
* Open Tree of Life: 515995
* Plazi: 3BAE41BC-EA4C-839E-8A40-C4301064D22F
* ZooBank: 0736651B-F821-440C-9D1F-05C3237E8A02

Authority control databases

National|

* Israel

Other|

* Yale LUX