Creonpyge

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: 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: Pyrrhopyginae
Tribus: Pyrrhopygini
Subtribus: Apyrrothrixina
Genus: Creonpyge
Species: C. creon
Name

Creonpyge Mielke, 2002.

Type Species: Pyrrhopyga [sic] creon H. Druce, 1874: 289.
Synonymy

Creonpyge Mielke, 2002: 224.

References

H. Druce, 1874. Descriptions of new species of diurnal Lepidoptera chiefly from tropical America. Cistula Entomologica 1(10): 285-290. BHL. Reference page.
Mielke, O.H.H. 2002. Pyrrhopyginae: gêneros novos e revalidados (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 19(1): 217–228. PDF. Reference page.
Nicolay, S.S. & Small, G.B., 1969. A New Subspecies of Pyrrhopyge creon Hesperiidae from Panama. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 23: 127-130. Reference page.
Zhang, J., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Brockmann, E. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Genomes reveal drastic and recurrent phenotypic divergence in firetip skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae: Pyrrhopyginae). Proc. R. Soc. B 286: 20190609. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0609. Appendix. Reference page.

Creonpyge is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae. The genus is monotypic containing the single species Creonpyge creon found in Costa Rica and Colombia.
References

Mielke, Olaf H. H. (2002). "Pyrrhopyginae: gêneros novos e revalidados (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae)". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 19 (1): 224–225. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000100020.

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database