Polites

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: Polites
Species: P. baracoa – P. bittiae – P. carus – P. draco – P. mardon – P. mystic – P. norae – P. origenes – P. peckius – P. pupillus – P. puxillius – P. rhesus – P. sabuleti – P. sonora – P. subreticulata – P. themistocles – P. vibex – P. vibicoides
Name

Polites Scudder, 1872: 78.

Type species: Hesperia peckius Kirby, 1837: 300, pl.4 figs.2,3.
Synonymy

Polites Scudder, [1872]: 78.
Hedone Scudder, [1872]: 79; TS: Hesperia brettus Boisduval & Le Conte; synonymy in Lamas, 2004: 77.
Limochores Scudder, 1872: 80; TS: Hesperia manataaqua Scudder; synonymy in Lamas, 2004: 77.
Pyrrhosidia Scudder, 1874: 346 TS: Hesperia mystic Edwards; synonymy in Lamas, 2004: 77.
Chaerephon Godman, [1900]: 474 (preocc. Dobson, 1878); TS: Pamphila citrus Mabille; synonymy in Lamas, 2004: 77.
Poanopsis Godman, [1900]: 486; TS: Pamphila puxillius Mabille; synonymy in Lamas, 2004: 77.
Yvretta Hemming, 1935: 3 (replacement name for Chaerephon Godman, [1900]); TS: Papmphila citrus Mabille.

Subsequent Mis-spellings

Choerephon, Mabille, 1904; Chaerophon, Hayward, 1941; Limnocheres, Keferstein, 1874; Limnochares, Kirby, 1876; Limophores, Weeks, 1901; Limochroes, Dyar, 1902; Limochoris, Watson F.E., 1946; Pyrrhosydia, Evans, 1955; Pyrrhosia, Warren, 2000; Potytes, Engel, 1908; Politas, Shull & Badger, 1972; Politex, Biezanko et al., 1974; Yuretta, Maza & Bezaury, 1992.

References

Austin, G.T. 1987. Nevada populations of Polites sabuleti and the descriptions of five new subspecies. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 109: 1-24. PDF. Reference page.
Austin, G.T. 1988. Nevada populations of Polites sabuleti. II. Replacement name for Polites sabuleti pallida. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 120: 1. PDF. Reference page.
Brown & Miller, 1977. The Types of the Hesperiid Butterflies Named by William Henry Edwards. Part II, Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae, Section I Transactions of the American Entomological Society 103 (1)ː 259-302, 27 figs. Reference page.
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.
Godman, F.D. & Salvin, O. 1887–1901. Biologia Centrali-Americana Vol. II. Insecta Lepidoptera: 782 pp. Text, Plates. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1935. Notes on seventeen genera of Rhopalocera. Stylops 4: 1-3. 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.
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.
Scudder, S.H. 1874. The Species of the Lepidopterous Genus Pamphila. Memoirs read before the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 341–353, pls. 10,11. BHL Reference page.
Shull, E.M. & F.S. Badger, 1972. Annotated List of the Butterflies of Indiana, 1971. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 26(1): 13-24. Reference page.

Polites is a genus of North American butterflies of the family Hesperiidae (skippers), subfamily Hesperiinae (grass skippers).
Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:[1]

The themistocles species group:

Polites draco (W.H. Edwards, 1871) – draco skipper
Polites mardon (W.H. Edwards, 1881) – Mardon skipper, Cascades skipper or little Oregon skipper
Polites norae MacNeill, 1993
Polites peckius (W. Kirby, 1837) – Peck's skipper or yellowpatch skipper
Polites sabuleti (Boisduval, 1852) – sandhill skipper or saltgrass skipper
Polites themistocles (Latreille, 1824) – tawny-edged skipper

The origenes species group:

Polites mystic (W.H. Edwards, 1863) – long dash skipper
Polites origenes (Fabricius, 1793) – crossline skipper
Polites pupillus (Plötz, 1882)
Polites puxillius (Mabille, 1891)
Polites sonora (Scudder, 1872) – Sonoran skipper

The rhesus species group:

Polites carus (Edwards, 1883) – desert gray skipper, Carus skipper
Polites rhesus (W.H. Edwards, 1878) – Rhesus skipper
Polites subreticulata (Plötz, 1883)

The vibex species group:

Polites vibex (Geyer, [1832]) – whirlabout

Unnamed species group:

Polites baracoa (Lucas, 1857) – Baracoa skipper
Polites bittiae Lindsey, 1925
Polites vibicoides de Jong, 1983

References

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