Porphyrogenes

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: Eudaminae
Tribus: Phocidini
Genus: Porphyrogenes
Species (30): P. boliva – P. calathana – P. convexus – P. despecta – P. eudemus – P. ferruginea – P. glavia – P. omphale – P. passalus – P. pausias – P. peterwegei – P. probus – P. simulator – P. sororcula – P. spadix – P. spanda – P. sparta – P. sparus – P. speciosus – P. specularis – P. spina – P. splendidus – P. spoda – P. sporta – P. stresa – P. stupa – P. sula – P. virgatus – P. vulpecula – P. zohra
Name

Porphyrogenes Watson, 1893ː 35.

Type species: Telegonus omphale Butler, 1871ː 284.
Synonyms

Caecina Hewitson, 1868ː 55 (praeocc. Caecina Stål, 1863 Hemiptera). Synonymy in Hemming, 1967: 84.
Type species: Caecina calathana Hewitson, 1868ː 56.
Physalea Mabille, 1903ː 16.
Type species: Telemiades vulpecula Plötz 1882.
Ocyba Lindsey, 1925 (repl. Caecina Hewitson, 1868). Synonymy in Li et al., 2019: SI appendix 14.
Type species: Caecina calathana Hewitson, 1868ː 56.
Porphyrogenes Hewitson, 1893; Hemming, 1967ː 372. Authorship superceded.

References

Austin, G.T. 2008. Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: Taxonomic comments on "night" skippers, with descriptions of new genera and species (Lepidoptera: Eudaminae). Insecta Mundi 29: 1–36. PDF. Reference page.
Austin, G. T. & Mielke, O.H.H. 2008. Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: Porphyrogenes Watson (Lepidoptera: Pyrginae: Eudamini), with descriptions of new species from Central and South America. Insecta Mundi 44: 1–56. PDF. Reference page.
Burns, D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, 2010. Of many similar species in the neotropical genus Porphyrogenes (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), a new one, repeatedly reared in Costa Rica, is relatively distinct. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 112 (1): 32-42. 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.
Hewitson, W.C. 1867-68. Descriptions of One Hundred New Species of Hesperidae Pt.1 pp.1-25; Pt.2 pp.31-56. van Voorst, London. 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.
Mabille, P. 1903-1904. Genera Insectorum - Fam. Hesperiidae Fascicule 17: 210pp, 4 pls. P. Wytsman, Brussels. BHL. Reference page.
Watson, E.Y. 1893. A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893(1): 3–132, 3 pls. BHL text, plates. Reference page.

Porphyrogenes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.[1]
Species

Porphyrogenes boliva Evans, 1952 Venezuela
Porphyrogenes calathana (Hewitson, 1868)
Porphyrogenes despecta (Butler, 1870)
P. despecta despecta Brazil (Pará, Bahia),
P. despecta cervinus (Plötz, 1883) Brazil
Porphyrogenes glavia Evans, 1952 Panama
Porphyrogenes passalus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
P. passalus passalus Brazil (Amazonas) to Bolivia, Venezuela
P. passalus omphale (Butler, 1871) Venezuela
Porphyrogenes pausias (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil (Amazonas)
Porphyrogenes probus (Möschler, 1877) Surinam, Colombia
Porphyrogenes sororcula (Mabille & Boullet, 1912) French Guiana
Porphyrogenes spanda Evans, 1952 Brazil (Pará)
Porphyrogenes sparta Evans, 1952 Brazil (Pará)
Porphyrogenes spoda Evans, 1952 Panama
Porphyrogenes stupa Evans, 1952 type locality unknown
Porphyrogenes suva Evans, 1952 Peru
Porphyrogenes vulpecula (Plötz, 1882)
P. vulpecula vulpecula Brazil, Panama
P. vulpecula immaculata (Skinner, 1920) Peru
Porphyrogenes zohra (Möschler, 1879)
P. zohra zohra Venezuela, Peru, Honduras
P. zohra stresa Evans, 1952 Peru

References

Funet

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database