Porphyrogenes

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Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Porphyrogenes Higher classification Skipper Order Butterflies and moths		Family Hesperiidae Phylum Arthropoda Rank Genus

Similar Skipper, Telemiades, Butterflies and moths, Butterfly, Polythrix

Porphyrogenes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Porphyrogenes boliva Evans, 1952 Venezuela

Porphyrogenes despecta (Butler, 1870)

P. despecta despecta Brazil (Pará, Bahia),

P. despecta cervinus (Plötz, 1883) Brazil

Porphyrogenes glavia Evans, 1952 Panama

Porphyrogenes passalus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)

P. passalus passalus Brazil (Amazonas) to Bolivia, Venezuela

P. passalus omphale (Butler, 1871) Venezuela

Porphyrogenes pausias (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil (Amazonas)

Porphyrogenes probus (Möschler, 1877) Surinam, Colombia

Porphyrogenes sororcula (Mabille & Boullet, 1912) French Guiana

Porphyrogenes spanda Evans, 1952 Brazil (Pará)

Porphyrogenes sparta Evans, 1952 Brazil (Pará)

Porphyrogenes spoda Evans, 1952 Panama

Porphyrogenes stupa Evans, 1952 type locality unknown

Porphyrogenes suva Evans, 1952 Peru

Porphyrogenes vulpecula (Plötz, 1882)

P. vulpecula vulpecula Brazil, Panama

P. vulpecula immaculata (Skinner, 1920) Peru

Porphyrogenes zohra (Möschler, 1879)

P. zohra zohra Venezuela, Peru, Honduras

P. zohra stresa Evans, 1952 Peru

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