Urbanus (genus)

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

Similar Long‑tailed skipper, Skipper, Butterfly, Urbanus dorantes, Butterflies and moths

Urbanus is a genus of skipper butterflies. They belong to the subfamily Eudaminae, which was long included with the spread-winged skippers (Pyrginae) as a tribe. They are found from southern United States to South America.

Some smaller genera have been merged with Urbanus. One of these, now a junior synonym, is Eudamus, the type genus of the Eudaminae. But in the wide circumscription listed here, Urbanus is apparently not monophyletic, and thus some of the formerly independent genera are likely valid.

Species

The species in this genus are:

Urbanus albimargo (Mabille, 1875) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil

U. albimargo albimargo – Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia

U. albimargo rica Evans, 1952 – Paraguay

U. albimargo takuta Evans, 1952 – Guyana

Urbanus ambiguus de Jong, 1983 – Suriname

Urbanus belli (Hayward, 1935) – Bell's longtail – Mexico to Bolivia to Argentina

Urbanus carmelita (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)

Urbanus carmelita carmelita – Brazil

Urbanus carmelita barra Evans, 1952 – Brazil (Bahia)

Urbanus carmelita trebia (Möschler, 1879) – Venezuela, Panama, Colombia

Urbanus chalco (Hübner, 1823) – Chalco longtail – Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina

Urbanus chales (Godman & Salvin, [1893]) – Mexico

Urbanus cindra Evans, 1952 – Bolivia

Urbanus dorantes (Stoll, [1790]) – Dorantes longtail, lilac-banded longtail

U. dorantes dorantes – south California, south Arizona, south New Mexico, south Texas, south Florida Central America , South America, Argentina, Antilles

U. dorantes dorantes – Texas, Mexico, Suriname, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela

U. dorantes santiago – (Lucas, 1857) Brazil, Jamaica, Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, Grenada

U. dorantes obscurus (Hewitson, 1867) – Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saba, Antigua, Grenada, Barbados

U. dorantes galapagensis (Williams, 1911) – Galapagos skipper – Galápagos Islands

U. dorantes calafia (Williams, 1926) – Mexico (Baja California)

U. dorantes cramptoni Comstock, 1944 – Antilles, Puerto Rico

Urbanus doryssus (Swainson, 1831) – white-tailed longtail, white-tailed skipper – south Texas, Central America, South America, Argentina

Urbanus doryssus doryssus – Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras

Urbanus doryssus albicuspis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Colombia, Brazil (Santa Catarina, Rio de Janeiro)

Urbanus dubius Steinhauser, 1981 – Colombia

Urbanus elmina Evans, 1952 – Ecuador

Urbanus esma Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Brazil (São Paulo)

Urbanus esmeraldus (Butler, 1877) – esmeraldus longtail – Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras to Brazil, Colombia

Urbanus esta Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Brazil (São Paulo)

Urbanus evenus (Ménétriés, 1855) – Brazil

Urbanus evona Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Guatemala

Urbanus huancavillcas (Williams, 1926) – Ecuador

Urbanus longicaudus Austin, 1998 – Brazil (Rondônia)

Urbanus magnus Steinhauser, 1981 – Ecuador

Urbanus parvus Austin, 1998 Brazil (Rondônia)

Urbanus procne (Plötz, 1880) – brown longtail – south Texas, Arizona, Central America , South America , Argentina, Brazil

Urbanus prodicus Bell, 1956 – Mexico

Urbanus pronta Evans, 1952 – pronta longtail – Mexico, Honduras

Urbanus pronus Evans, 1952 – Central America, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay

Urbanus proteus (Linnaeus, 1758) – long-tailed skipper – south California, Arizona, Texas, Florida Central America, South America, Argentina

U. proteus proteus – Mexico

U. proteus domingo (Scudder, 1872) – Saba to Grenada, Haiti

Urbanus reductus (Riley, 1919) – Brazil (Amazonas)

Urbanus simplicius (Stoll, [1790]) – plain longtail – Texas, Central America, South America, Suriname, Brazil, Honduras, Bolivia

Urbanus tanna Evans, 1952 – Tanna longtail – Mexico to Colombia

Urbanus teleus (Hübner, 1821) – teleus longtail – Central America,south Arizona, south Texas South America, French Guiana, Brazil, Argentina

Urbanus velinus (Plötz, 1880) – Brazil (Bahia), Guyana

Urbanus villus Austin, 1998 – Brazil (Rondônia)

Urbanus virescens (Mabille, 1877) – virescens longtail – French Guiana, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Peru

Urbanus viridis Freeman, 1970 – Mexico

Urbanus viterboana (Ehrmann, 1907) – viterboana longtail – Mexico to Colombia, Ecuador

Urbanus zagorus (Plötz, 1880) – Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Argentina

References

Urbanus (genus) Wikipedia

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