Drephalys

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: 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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Bell, E.L. 1942. New genera and new species of neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). American Museum novitates 1205: 1–9. PDF.Reference page.
Burns, J.M. & Janzen, D.H. 1999. Drephalys: Division of this showy neotropical genus, plus a new species and the immatures and food plants of two species from Costa Rican dry forest (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 53(3): 77-89. 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.
Hewitson, W.C. 1867-68. Descriptions of One Hundred New Species of Hesperidae Pt.1 pp.1-25; Pt.2 pp.31-56. van Voorst, London. Reference page.
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. BHL text, plates. Reference page.