Erynnis

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: Pyrginae
Tribus: Erynnini
Subtribus: Erynnina
Genus: Erynnis
Species: E. brizo – E. icelus – E. marloyi – E. mercurius – E. montanus – E. pathan – E. pelias – E. popoviana – E. tages
Name

Erynnis Schrank, 1801: 152, 157.

Type species: Papilio tages Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Scudder, 1872: 71.
Synonyms

Thymele Fabricius, 1807: 287 (suppressed by I.C.Z.N. Opinion 232).
Type species: Papilio tages Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Westwood, 1840, 88.
Thymale Oken, 1815: 757, 758 (rejected name).
Type species: Papilio tages Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Hemming, 1933: 225.
Astycus Hübner, Syst.-alph. Verz., 1822: 1, 3, 5, 6, 8–10.
Type species: Papilio tages Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Hemming, 1933: 200.
Thanaos Boisduval, [1834]: 240.
Type species: Papilio tages Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Blanchard, 1840: 469.
Thanatos Dunning & Pickard, 1858, Accent. List Brit. Lep.: 6 (unjustified emendation of Thanaos Boisduval, [1834]).
Hallia Tutt, 1906: 261 (preocc. Hallia Edwards & Haime, 1850).
Type species: Thanaos marloyi Boisduval, [1834], by original designation.

References

Blanchard, C.É. 1840. Histoire naturelle des insectes : Orthoptères, Névroptères, Hémiptères, Hyménoptères, Lépidoptères et Diptères, 672 pp. P. Duménil (Paris). BHL Reference page.
Boisduval, J.B. 1832–1834. Icones historiques des Lépidoptères nouveaux ou peu connus. Collection, avec figures coloriées, des Papillons d'Europe nouvellement découverts; ouvrage formant le complément de tous les Auteurs iconographes. 1: Rhopalocères. Paris, Roret. 1: 1–251, pls 1–47. web Reference page.
Burns, J.M. 1964. Evolution in Skipper Butterflies of the Genus: Erynnis. University of California Publications in Entomology, Vol. 37, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, Cal., 1964. pp. iv + 214, 22 figs., 1 pl. Reference page.
Calhoun, J.V. 1993. Designation of a lectotype of Nisoniades somnus and notes on the occurrence of Erynnis icelus in Florida (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 47(1): 49–54. ResearchGate. Reference page.
Dunning & Pickard, 1859. An accentuated list of the British Lepidoptera with hints on the derivation of the names. Entomological Society of Oxford: 44+118 pages. Reference page.
Fabricius, J.C. 1807. In Illiger, J. K. W. Magazin für insektenkunde 6: 279–289. BHL. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1933. On the Types of certain butterfly genera. Entomologist 66: 196–200. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1933. Additional notes on the Types of certain butterfly genera. Entomologist 66: 222–225. 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.
Oken, L. 1815–1816. Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte 3 Theil: Zoologie. 1 Abt. (1815): Fleischlose Thiere.: i–xxviii + 1–850 + i–xviii, pls. 1–40 + i–iv. A. Schmid und Comp., Jena (C.H. Reclam, Leipzig). Atlas. 2 Abt. (1816): Fleischthiere.: i–xvi + 1–127. A. Schmid und Comp., Jena. Reference page.
Schrank, F. von P. 1801. Fauna Boica. Durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere Vol. 2(1): i–viii + 1–373. BHL Reference page.
Scudder, S.H. 1872. A systematic Revision of some of the American Butterflies; with brief notes on those known to occur in Essex County, Mass. 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Academy of Sciences (1871): 24–83. Online. Reference page.
Tutt, J.W. 1905–1906. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera Vol 8, Butterflies (1): 479pp, 20 pls. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. BHL. Reference page.
Westwood, J.O. 1840. An introduction to the modern classification of insects. Vol. 2. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. 587 pp. BHL Reference page.
Zhang, J., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Opler, P.A. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Changes to North American butterfly names. The Taxonomic Report of The International Lepidoptera Survey 8(2): 1–12. PDF. Reference page.

Erynnis is a genus in the skippers butterfly family Hesperiidae, known as the duskywings. Erynnis is found in the Neotropical realm and across the Palearctic, but the highest species diversity is in the Nearctic. The genus was erected by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1801.
Species and notable subspecies

Listed alphabetically:[1]

Erynnis afranius (Lintner, 1878) – Afranius duskywing
Erynnis baptisiae (Forbes, 1936) – wild indigo duskywing
Erynnis brizo (Boisduval & LeConte, [1837]) – sleepy duskywing
Erynnis brizo burgessi (Skinner, 1914) – Rocky Mountain sleepy duskywing
Erynnis funeralis (Scudder & Burgess, 1870) – funereal duskywing
Erynnis horatius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870) – Horace's duskywing
Erynnis icelus (Scudder & Burgess, 1870) – dreamy duskywing
Erynnis juvenalis (Fabricius, 1793) – Juvenal's duskywing
Erynnis lucilius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870) – columbine duskywing
Erynnis martialis (Scudder, 1869) – mottled duskywing
Erynnis marloyi (Boisduval, [1834]) – inky skipper
Erynnis mercurius (Dyar, 1926) Mexico
Erynnis montana (Bremer, 1861) South China, Formosa, Amur, Japan
Erynnis meridianus Bell, 1927 – meridian duskywing – California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico
Erynnis pacuvius (Lintner, [1878]) – Pacuvius duskywing, Dyar's duskywing, or buckthorn dusky wing
Erynnis pacuvius callidus (Grinnell, 1905) – Californian – Pacuvius duskywing
Erynnis pathan Evans, 1949 Ghissar, Chitral, North Baluchistan
Erynnis pelias (Leech, 1891) West China, Arunachal Pradesh[2]
Erynnis persius (Scudder, 1863) – Persius duskywing or hairy duskywing
Erynnis persius fredericki (H. A. Freeman, 1943) – eastern Persius duskywing
Erynnis popoviana Nordmann, 1851 Mongolia, North China, East China, Central China, Ussuri
Erynnis propertius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870) – Propertius duskywing or western oak duskywing
Erynnis scudderi (Skinner, 1914) – Scudder's duskywing – Mexico, Arizona
Erynnis tages (Linnaeus, 1758) – dingy skipper
Erynnis telemachus Burns, 1960 – Rocky Mountain duskywing – Arizona
Erynnis tristis (Boisduval 1852) – mournful duskywing – Arizona, California,[3] New Mexico, Texas, Mexico to Colombia, Central America
Erynnis tristis tatius (W. H. Edwards, 1882) – Tatius duskywing – Arizona, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, to Colombia
Erynnis zarucco (H. Lucas, 1857) – zarucco duskywing

References

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Shapiro, Art. "Erynnis tristis". Art Shapiro's Butterfly Site. Retrieved 2 August 2021.