Zalomes

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: Hesperiini
Subtribus: Moncina
Genus: Zalomes
Species: Z. allynorum – Z. banco – Z. biforis – Z. conspicua – Z. cordillera – Z. coto – Z. illimanensis – Z. merida – Z. naco – Z. wanda
Name

Zalomes E.L. Bell, 1947

Type species: Zalomes colobus E.L. Bell, 1947.
Synonymy

Zalomes Bell, 1947: 9; Hemming, 1967: 461.
Nylla Miller, L.D. & J.Y. Miller, 1972. TS: Nylla cordillera Miller, L.D. & J.Y. Miller, 1972.

References

Bell, E.L. 1947. A New Genus: and some New Species and Subspecies of Neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). American Museum novitates 1354: 1–12. PDF. Reference page.
Bell, E.L. 1959. Descriptions of Some New Species of Neotropical Hesperiidae. American Museum novitates 1962: 1–16. PDF. Reference page.
Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56. 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.
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.
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.
Steinhauser, S.R. 1991. Taxonomic notes and descriptions of new taxa in the neotropical Hesperiidae, Vinius group. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 132: 1-44. PDF. Reference page.

Zalomes is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database