Urbanus (butterfly)
| Urbanus | |
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| Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Eudaminae |
| Genus: | Urbanus Hübner, [1807] |
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Urbanus is a genus of skipper butterflies erected by Jacob Hübner in 1807. They belong to the subfamily Eudaminae, which was long included with the spread-winged skippers (Pyrginae) as a tribe. They are found from the southern United States to South America.[1]
Some smaller genera have been merged with Urbanus. One of these, now a junior synonym, is Eudamus, the type genus of the Eudaminae. But in the wide circumscription listed here, Urbanus is apparently not monophyletic, and thus some of the formerly independent genera are likely valid.
Species[]
Esmeralda longtail (Urbanus esmeraldus), Costa Rica
Esmeralda longtail (Urbanus esmeraldus), Costa Rica
The species in this genus are:[1][2]
Urbanus and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
- (Mabille, 1875) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil
- U. albimargo albimargo – Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia
- U. albimargo rica Evans, 1952 – Paraguay
- U. albimargo takuta Evans, 1952 – Guyana
- de Jong, 1983 – Suriname
- (Hayward, 1935) – Bell's longtail – Mexico to Bolivia to Argentina
- (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
- Urbanus carmelita carmelita – Brazil
- Urbanus carmelita barra Evans, 1952 – Brazil (Bahia)
- Urbanus carmelita trebia (Möschler, 1879) – Venezuela, Panama, Colombia
- (Hübner, 1823) – Chalco longtail – Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina
- (Godman & Salvin, [1893]) – Mexico
- Evans, 1952 – Bolivia
- Urbanus dorantes (Stoll, [1790]) – Dorantes longtail, lilac-banded longtail
- U. dorantes dorantes – south California, south Arizona, south New Mexico, south Texas, south Florida Central America, South America, Argentina, Antilles
- U. dorantes dorantes – Texas, Mexico, Suriname, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela
- U. dorantes santiago – (Lucas, 1857) Brazil, Jamaica, Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, Grenada
- U. dorantes obscurus (Hewitson, 1867) – Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saba, Antigua, Grenada, Barbados
- U. dorantes galapagensis (Williams, 1911) – Galapagos skipper – Galápagos Islands
- U. dorantes calafia (Williams, 1926) – Mexico (Baja California)
- U. dorantes cramptoni Comstock, 1944 – Antilles, Puerto Rico
- Urbanus doryssus (Swainson, 1831) – white-tailed longtail, white-tailed skipper – south Texas, Central America, South America, Argentina
- Urbanus doryssus doryssus – Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras
- Urbanus doryssus albicuspis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Colombia, Brazil (Santa Catarina, Rio de Janeiro)
- Steinhauser, 1981 – Colombia
- Evans, 1952 – Ecuador
- Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Brazil (São Paulo)
- (Butler, 1877) – esmeralda longtail – Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras to Brazil, Colombia
- Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Brazil (São Paulo)
- (Ménétriés, 1855) – Brazil
- Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Guatemala
- (Williams, 1926) – Ecuador
- Austin, 1998 – Brazil (Rondônia)
- Steinhauser, 1981 – Ecuador
- Austin, 1998 Brazil (Rondônia)
- Urbanus procne (Plötz, 1880) – brown longtail – south Texas, Arizona, Central America, South America, Argentina, Brazil
- Bell, 1956 – Mexico
- Evans, 1952 – pronta longtail – Mexico, Honduras
- Evans, 1952 – Central America, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
- Urbanus proteus (Linnaeus, 1758) – long-tailed skipper – south California, Arizona, Texas, Florida Central America, South America, Argentina
- (Riley, 1919) – Brazil (Amazonas)
- Urbanus simplicius (Stoll, [1790]) – plain longtail – Texas, Central America, South America, Suriname, Brazil, Honduras, Bolivia
- Urbanus tanna Evans, 1952 – Tanna longtail – Mexico to Colombia
- (Hübner, 1821) – teleus longtail – Central America, south Arizona, south Texas South America, French Guiana, Brazil, Argentina
- (Plötz, 1880) – Brazil (Bahia), Guyana
- Austin, 1998 – Brazil (Rondônia)
- (Mabille, 1877) – virescens longtail – French Guiana, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Peru
- Freeman, 1970 – Mexico
- (Ehrmann, 1907) – viterboana longtail – Mexico to Colombia, Ecuador
- (Plötz, 1880) – Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Argentina
References[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Urbanus. |
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Wikispecies has information related to Urbanus. |
- ^ a b Savela, Markku (March 27, 2019). "Urbanus Hübner, [1807]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
- ^ "Pyrginae: Spreadwings -- Longtail Skippers". Neotropical Butterflies. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
External links[]
- "Taxonomy Browser: Urbanus". Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Retrieved April 26, 2020.
Categories:
- Hesperiidae
- Butterflies of North America
- Butterflies of Central America
- Hesperiidae of South America
- Lepidoptera of the Caribbean
- Hesperiidae genera
- Taxa named by Jacob Hübner