Drephalys

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Eudaminae
Tribus: Entheini
Genus: Drephalys
Subgenera (2): Drephalys – Paradrephalys

Name

Drephalys Watson, 1893: 34.

Type species: Eudamus helixus Hewitson, 1877: 320, by original designation.

Species

Subgenus Drephalys

D. (D.) alcmon –D. (D.) citrinus –D. (D.) dracarys –D. (D.) electrinus –D. (D.) eous –D. (D.) helixus – D. (D.) heraclides –D. (D.) kidonoi –D. (D.) miersi –D. (D.) mourei –D. (D.) olva –D. (D.) olvina –D. (D.) opifex –D. (D.) phoenice –D. (D.) phoenicoides

Subgenus Paradrephalys

D. (P.) croceus –D. (P.) dumeril –D. (P.) oria –D. (P.) oriander –D. (P.) talboti –D. (P.) tortus

Synonymy

Paradros Watson, 1893: 39. Type species: Eudamus phoenice Hewitson, 1867: 19, by original designation.
Drephalis (sic); J. Maza et.al., 1991. Mis-spelling per Lamas, 2004: 34.

References

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Hewitson, W.C., 1877. Descriptions of twenty-three new Species of Hesperidae from his own Collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(20)11: 319-328. Reference page.
Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page.
Li, W., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Zhang, J., Hallwachs, W., Janzen, D.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns. PNAS 116(13): 6232–6237. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1821304116. Text. SI Appendix. Reference page.
Siewert, R.R., Madruga, J., Dolibaina, D.R., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M. 2018. Hidden in plain sight: a morphological study revealing three new species of the skipper genus Drephalys Watson, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4472(3): 573–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.3.9 Reference page.
Watson, E.Y. 1893. A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893(1): 3–132, 3 pls. Reference page.