Poanes

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: Hesperiini
Subtribus: Hesperiina
Genus: Poanes
Species: P. aaroni – P. benito – P. massasoit – P. taxiles – P. viator – P. yehl – P. zachaeus
Name

Poanes Scudder, 1872

Typusː Hesperia massasoit Scudder, 1863ː 171, by Original Designation.
Synonymy

per Lamas, 2004ː 77.
★Poanes Scudder, 1872ː 76; Hemming, 1967ː 367; Lamas, 2004ː 77.
★Phycanassa Scudder, 1872ː 77; Hemming, 1967ː 361; Synonymy in Lamas, 2004ː 77.
★Paratrytone Dyar, 1905ː 136. Invalid, praeocc. per Godman, 1900.
★Pycanassa (Scudder); Unzicker, 1911ː III. Mis-spelling.
★Poannes Scudder; Simmons & Andersen, 1980ː 258. Mis-spelling.
★Poaenes (sic); Austin, 1986. Mis-spelling.
★Thycanassa (sic); Bridges, 1988. Mis-spelling.

Broad-winged Skipper, Poanes viator

References

Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56. web. Reference page.
Freeman, H. A., 1979. Nine new species and seven new records of Mexican Hesperiidae. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 52: 1-13. Reference page.
Gatrelle, R.R. 1999. Three new Hesperioidae (Hesperiinae) from South Carolina: new subspecies of Euphyes bimacula, Poanes aaroni, and Hesperia attalus. The Taxonomic Report 1 (10): 1–13. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Gatrelle, R.R. 2000. Description of a new subspecies of Poanes aaroni (Hesperioidea: Hesperiinae) from the west central Gulf coast of the southern United States. The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 2(2): 1-9 (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.
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.
Miller, L.D. & Miller, J.Y. 1972. New high-altitude Hesperiinae from Mexico and Ecuador (Hesperiidae). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 7: 1–7. Reference page.
Scudder, S.H., 1864. A list of the butterflies of New England. Proceedings of the Essex Institute, (1860-1863)ː 3, 161-179. 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. Annual report of the trustees of the Peabody Academy of Natural Sciences 4: 24–83. Reference page.
Unzicker, R., 1911. Eine entomologische Sammelreise nach Kansas. Fauna exotica; mitteilungen aus dem gebiete der exotischen insektenwelt 1ː 1-4. Reference page.

Poanes is a genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae) distributed throughout North and Central America. The larvae feed on grasses and sedges. The genus was erected by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1872.
Species

In 2019, several species were moved from Poanes to a new genus, Lon. The species remaining in Poanes include:[1][2]

Poanes aaroni (Skinner, 1890) – saffron skipper
Poanes benito Freeman, 1979 – Benito's skipper
Poanes massasoit (Scudder, 1863) – mulberry wing
Poanes viator (Edwards, 1865) – broad-winged skipper
Poanes yehl (Skinner, 1893) – Yehl skipper
Poanes zachaeus (Plötz, 1883) – Zachaeus skipper

References and external links

Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick V. (11 October 2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 0731: 1–56.
Savela, Markku (August 17, 2013). "Poanes Scudder, 1872". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 10, 2020.