Megathymus

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: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Megathymini
Genus: Megathymus
Species: M. beulahae – M. cofaqui – M. coloradensis – M. streckeri – M. ursus – M. yuccae
Name

Megathymus Scudder, 1872.

Type species: Eudamus yuccae Boisduval & Le Conte, 1834. By monotypy.
Synonymy

Megathymus Scudder, 1872: 83; Hemming, 1967: 281.

Megathymus yuccae

References

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.
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.
Holland, W.J., 1930. Notes on Some American Butterflies Mainly Relating to their Classification and Nomenclature. Annals of the Carnegie Museum XIX: 185-204, XX: 39-55, 255-265. Reference page.
Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol. 5A. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439p. 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.

Vernacular names
中文: 大弄蝶屬

Megathymus is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae.
Selected species

Megathymus beulahae
Megathymus cofaqui (Strecker, 1876)
Megathymus streckeri
Megathymus texanus
Megathymus ursus (Poling, 1902)
Megathymus yuccae (Boisduval & Leconte, 1837) – yucca giant-skipper