Aguna

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Eudaminae
Tribus: Eudamini
Subtribus: Loboclina
Genus: Aguna
Species (27): A. albistria – A. asander – A. aurunce – A. camagura – A. cirrus – A. claxon – A. clina – A. coeloides – A. coelus – A. ganna – A. glaphyrus – A. latifascia – A. latimacula – A. longicauda – A. megaeles – A. mesodentata – A. metophis – A. nicolayi – A. panama – A. parva – A. penicillata – A. prasinus – A. similis – A. spatulata – A. spicata – A. squamalba – A. venezuelae
Name

Aguna Williams, 1927: 286.

Type species: Eudamus camagura Williams, 1926, by original designation.
Synonymy

Tmetocerus Poujade, 1895 (preocc. Tmetocerus Hartert, 1891 [Aves]); TS: Eudamus asander Hewitson, 1867.

References

Austin & Mielke 1998. Hesperiidae of Rondonia, Brazil: Aguna Williams (Pyrginae), with a partial revision and descriptions of new species from Panama, Ecuador, and Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 14(4): 889–965. Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1951–55. A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidae. Pt.1 (1951): x+92pp, pls. 1–9; Pt.2 (1952): v.+178pp, pls. 10–25; Pt.3 (1953): v+246pp, pls. 26–53; Pt.4 (1955): v+499pp, pls. 54–88. Reference page.
Grishin, N.V. 2019. Expanded phenotypic diagnoses for 24 recently named new taxa of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). The Taxonomic Report 8(1): 1–15. PDF. 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.
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.
Mielke, O.H.H., 1971. Contribuição ao estudo faunístico dos Hesperiidae Americanos - II. distribuição geográfica das espécies de Aguna Williams, 1927, com descricão de una espécie nova e un novo sinônimo. Arq. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, 54: 203-208, Figs 1-3. Reference page.
Siewert, R.R., Leviski, G.L., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M. 2015. A new species of Aguna Williams (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) from Panamá belonging to the “claxon group”. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 59(4): 320–322. PDF. Reference page.
Williams, R.C. 1927. Studies in the Neotropical Hesperioidea, Paper II. Trans. Am. ent. Soc 53(3): 261–291. Reference page.