Amenis

Amenis
Amenis pionia depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Amenis Watson, 1893

Amenis is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae. The genus is monotypic containing a single species, Amenis pionia (Hewitson, 1857).

Subspecies

• Amenis pionia pionia Colombia, Venezuela
• Amenis pionia picia Evans, 1951 Colombia
• Amenis pionia ponina (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) Panama, Venezuela

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• images representing Amenis pionia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life