Adlerodea

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
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: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Hesperiini
Subtribus: Moncina
Genus: Adlerodea
Species: A. lemba – A. mineira – A. modesta – A. petrovna
Name

Adlerodea Hayward, 1940: 75.

Type species: Adlerodea modesta Hayward, 1940
Synonymy

Adlerodea Hemming, 1967: 26.

References

Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56. web. Reference page.
Hayward, K.J., 1940. Hesperioidea Argentina. 12. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 129-130: 70-94 14 figs. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.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.

Adlerodea is a Neotropical genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species

Adlerodea lemba Evans, 1955 – type locality Brazil
Adlerodea mineira O. Mielke, 1968 – type locality Brazil
Adlerodea modesta Hayward, 1940 – type locality Argentina
Adlerodea petrovna (Schaus, 1902) – Petrovna skipper – south Mexico to south Brazil

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

Butterflies of the Americas images