Melanopyge

Updated on Oct 31, 2023

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Hesperiidae		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Rank Genus

Similar Yanguna, Mimoniades, Jemadia, Myscelus

Melanopyge is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Melanopyge cossea (Druce, 1875) cossea skipper - Colombia

Melanopyge erythrosticta (Godman & Salvin, 1879) spotted skipper - southeast Mexico to Panama

Melanopyge hoffmanni (Freeman, 1977) Hoffmann's skipper - southeast Mexico, Belize

Melanopyge maculosa (Hewitson, 1866) maculosa skipper - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela

Melanopyge mulleri (Bell, 1934) red-spotted skipper - southeast Mexico

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