Cephise

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: Cephisina
Genus: Cephise
Species (12): C. aelius – C. burnsi – C. callias – C. cephise – C. glarus – C. guatemalensis – C. impunctus – C. maculatus – C. malesedis – C. mexicanus – C. nuspesez – C. procerus
Name

Cephise Evans, 1952

Type species: Eudamus cephise Herrich-Schäffer, 1869, by original designation.
References

Evans, 1952: Cat. amer. Hesp Brit. Mus. 2: 136, 153.
Austin, G.T. & Mielke, O.H.H. 2000. Hesperiidae of Rondonia, Brazil: Cephise Evans (Pyrginae), with descriptions of new species from Mexico and Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 17(3): 757–788.
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.
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.

Cephise is a Neotropical genus in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae).[1]
Species

Cephise aelius (Plötz, 1880) Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
Cephise burnsi Austin & Mielke, 2000 Brazil (Espírito Santo).
Cephise cephise (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) Brazil, Peru
Cephise glarus (Mabille, 1888) Brazil (Pará)
Cephise guatemalaensis (Freeman, 1977) Guatemala, south Mexico
Cephise impunctus Austin & Mielke, 2000 Brazil (Rondônia)
Cephise maculatus Austin & Mielke, 2000 Brazil (Rondônia)
Cephise malesedis Austin & Mielke, 2000 Brazil (Rondônia)
Cephise mexicanus Austin & Mielke, 2000 Mexico
Cephise nuspesez Burns, 1996 Mexico, Costa Rica
Cephise procerus (Plötz, 1880) Brazil (Pará), Mexico to Venezuela

References

Funet

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database