Agathymus

Agathymus
Agathymus aryxna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Agathymus Freeman, 1959

Agathymus is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae. They occur in the North American deserts. The genus was described by Hugh Avery Freeman in 1959. The larvae bore into the stems of agave plants.

These butterflies have been treated as members of the disputed skipper subfamily Megathyminae, but are also considered sufficiently distinct to be in their own family, Megathymidae, along with the genera Megathymus and Stallingsia.

Species[]

• species group unknown
  • Agathymus alliae (Stallings & Turner, 1957)
  • Agathymus aryxna (Dyar, 1905)
  • (Freeman, 1955)
  • (Stallings & Turner, 1957)
  • (Harbison, 1957)
  • Harbison, 1963
  • Freeman, 1962
  • Stallings, Turner & Stallings, 1966
  • (Stallings & Turner, 1958)
  • Agathymus evansi (Freeman, 1950)
  • Freeman, 1960
  • (Stallings & Turner, 1957)
  • Roever, 1998
  • Freeman, 1964
  • (Freeman, 1952)
  • (Butler & H. Druce, 1872)
  • (Stallings & Turner, 1957)
  • Agathymus mariae (Barnes & Benjamin, 1924)
  • Stallings, Turner & Stallings, 1961
  • Agathymus neumoegeni (Edwards, 1882)
  • Agathymus polingi (Skinner, 1905)
  • Agathymus remingtoni (Stallings & Turner, 1958)
  • (Dyar, 1913)
  • Stallings, Turner & Stallings, 1966
  • Freeman, 1964
  • Agathymus stephensi (Skinner, 1912)
• The baueri species group
  • Agathymus baueri (Stallings & Turner, 1954)
  • (Stallings & Turner, 1958)

References[]

• Freeman, 1959, Lepid. News 12 (3/4): 82
• Freeman, H.A., 1960: Notes on Agathymus in Texas, and the description of a new species from Mexico (Megathymidae). Journal Lepidop. Soc. 14 (1): 58–62. Full article: [1]^{[permanent dead link]}
• Lamas, Gerardo, 2004, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea.

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• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Hesperiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.