Megathymini

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: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Megathymini
Genera: Aegiale – Agathymus – Megathymus - Stallingsia – Turnerina

Name

Megathymini Comstock & Comstock, 1895: 365.
Synonymy

Aegialini Stallings & Turner, 1958: 134. Synonymy in Li et al., 2019, appendix: 7.
Agathymini Stallings & Turner, 1959: 93. Synonymy in Li et al., 2019, appendix: 7.

References

Comstock, J.H. & Comstock, A.B. 1895. A manual for the study of insects. Comstock Publishing Company, Ithaca, N.Y. 701pp. Reference page.
Freeman, H.A. 1969. Systematic review of the Megathymidae. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 23(suppl. 1): 1–62. 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.
Stallings, D.B. & Turner, J.R. 1958. A review of the Megathymidae of Mexico, with a synopsis of the classification of the family. The Lepidopterists' News 11(4–5): 113–117. BHL Reference page.
Stallings, D.B. & Turner, J.R. 1959. The names for the suprageneric categories of the Megathymidae. The Lepidopterists' News 12(3–4): 93–94. BHL Reference page.
Stallings, D.B., Turner, J.R. & Stallings, V.N. 1966. Two new species and two new subspecies of Megathymidae from Mexico and the United States. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 20(3): 163–172. PDF. Reference page.
Warren, A.D., Ogawa, J.R. & Brower, A.V.Z. 2009. Revised classification of the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea) based on combined molecular and morphological data. Systematic entomology 34(3): 467–523. Reference page.