Thorybes

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: Eudaminae
Tribus: Eudamini
Subtribus: Eudamina
Genus: Cecropterus
Subgenus: Thorybes
Species (17): C. bathyllus – C. casica – C. cincta – C. confusis – C. diversus – C. dorantes – C. drusius – C. egregius – C. lyciades – C. mexicana – C. obscurus – C. palliolum – C. pseudocellus – C. pylades – C. tehuacana – C. vectilucis – C. virescens
Name

Thorybes Scudder, 1872

Type species: Papilio bathyllus Smith, 1797.
Synonyms

Achalarus Scudder, 1872. Synonymy in Li et al., 2019: SI appendix 16.
Type species: Papilio lycidas Smith, 1797 (invalid, replaced by Proteides lyciades Geyer, [1832]), by original designation.
Cocceius Godman & Salvin, [1894]
Type species: Eudamus pylades Scudder, 1870.

References

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.

Thorybes is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae subfamily Eudaminae.
Species

Thorybes bathyllus (Smith, 1797) - southern cloudywing
Thorybes confusis E. Bell, 1923 – confused cloudywing Florida May be Thorybes mexicana confuses
Thorybes diversus Bell, 1927 - western cloudywing
Thorybes drusius (Edwards, 1883) - Drusius cloudywing Southeast Arizona, Southwest New Mexico, West Texas, Mexico.
Thorybes mexicana (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
Thorybes pylades (Scudder, 1870) - northern cloudywing

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Thorybes at funet