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Kingdom
  
Order
  
Subfamily
  
Pyrginae

Higher classification
  
Skipper

Phylum
  
Family
  
Hesperiidae

Scientific name
  
Pyrrhopygini

Rank
  
Tribe

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Skipper, Butterfly, Butterflies and moths, Pyrrhopyge, Spread‑winged skipper

Firetips or firetail skippers are the tribe Pyrrhopygini of the skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae). The roughly 150 species are found only in the Neotropics, with the exception of one species which just reaches into the United States. Their common names refer to the red tuft at the end of the abdomen of many Pyrrhopygini.

They were formerly treated as distinct subfamily Pyrrhopyginae. But they actually belong to the large and diverse spread-winged skipper subfamily (Pyrginae), as the pyrgine tribe Tagiadini is their closest living relative.

Subtribes

Of the four recognized subtribes of firetail skippers, one (the Zoniina) is monotypic, containing only the species Zonia zonia. The subtribes are:

  • Oxynetrina
  • Passovina
  • Pyrrhopygina
  • Zoniina
  • References

    Firetips Wikipedia


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