Staphylus (butterfly)

Staphylus
Central American sootywing (Staphylus ascalaphus) female
Plötz's sootywing (Staphylus oeta)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Pyrginae
Genus:	Staphylus Godman & Salvin, [1896]
Synonyms
Scantilla Godman & Salvin, [1896]

Staphylus is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae found mainly in South America with some species in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and southern United States.^[1]

Species[]

Listed alphabetically.^[1]

• (Staudinger, 1876) – mauve scallopwing
• (Staudinger, 1876)
• (Williams & Bell, 1940)
• (Scudder, 1872) – Aztec scallopwing
• (Bell, 1937)
• (Williams & Bell, 1940)
• (Williams & Bell, 1940)
• (Williams & Bell, 1940)
• Staphylus ceos (Edwards, 1882) – golden-headed sootywing
• Evans, 1953 – green-headed sootywing
• (Latreille, [1824])
• (Mabille, 1891)
• (Lindsey, 1925)
• (Williams & Bell, 1940)
• Evans, 1953
• Miller, 1966
• Godman & Salvin, [1896]
• Hayward, 1933
• Staphylus hayhurstii (Edwards, 1870) – Hayhurst's scallopwing, scalloped sootywing
• (Williams & Bell, 1940)
• (Williams & Bell, 1940) – Iguala sootywing
• (Hayward, 1940)
• Bell, 1932
• (Mabille, 1878)
• Mielke, 1980
• Cock, 1996
• Steinhauser, 1989
• (Hayward, 1938)
• Staphylus mazans (Reakirt, [1867]) – Mazans scallopwing, southern scalloped sootywing
• (Hayward, 1947)
• (Mabille, 1883)
• Steinhauser, 1989
• (Weeks, 1902)
• Schaus, 1902 – speckled sootywing
• Evans, 1953
• (Burmeister, 1875)
• Staphylus oeta (Plötz, 1884) – Plötz's sootywing
• Steinhauser & Austin, 1993
• (Möschler, 1879)
• Evans, 1953
• Hayward, 1933
• (Bell, 1937)
• Evans, 1953
• Evans, 1953
• Evans, 1953
• (Bell, 1942) – checkered scallopwing
• Evans, 1953 – west-Mexican scallopwing
• Steinhauser, 1989
• Steinhauser, 1989
• (Plötz, 1884)
• (Mabille, 1878)
• Steinhauser & Austin, 1993
• Freeman, 1969 – Chiapas scallopwing
• (Plötz, 1886) – mountain scallopwing
• (Möschler, 1879) – golden-snouted scallopwing

References[]

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