Polites (butterfly)

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Polites
Male Tawny-edged Skipper, Megan McCarty68.jpg
Tawny-edged skipper (Polites themistocles), male

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
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Family:
Hesperiidae
Subfamily:
Hesperiinae
Genus:
Polites

Scudder, 1872
Synonyms

Hedone (Scudder, 1872)
Limochores (Scudder, 1872)
Poanopsis (Godman, 1900)
Pyrrhosidia (Scudder, 1874)
Yvretta (Hemming, 1935)

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:

The origenes species group:

The rhesus species group:

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

The vibex species group:

Unnamed species group:

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

References[]

  1. ^ Polites, funet.fi

External links[]

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