Cephise
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| Cephise and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subtribe: | Cephisina |
| Genus: | Cephise Evans, 1952 |
Cephise is a Neotropical genus of skipper butterflies of the subfamily Eudaminae,[1] within which it is placed in subtribe Cephisina.[2]
Species
[edit]Per Li et al. 2019, the genus contains the following species:[2]
- Cephise aelius (Plötz, 1880) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
- Cephise burnsi Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Espírito Santo).
- Cephise callias (Mabille, 1888)
- Cephise cephise (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Brazil, Peru
- Cephise glarus (Mabille, 1888) – Brazil (Pará)
- Cephise guatemalaensis (Freeman, 1977) – Guatemala, south Mexico
- Cephise impunctus Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Rondônia)
- Cephise maculatus Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Rondônia)
- Cephise malesedis Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Brazil (Rondônia)
- Cephise mexicanus Austin & Mielke, 2000 – Mexico
- Cephise nuspesez Burns, 1996 – Mexico, Costa Rica
- Cephise procerus (Plötz, 1880) – Brazil (Pará), Mexico to Venezuela
References
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- ^ a b Li, Wenlin; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Zhang, Jing; Hallwachs, Winnie; Janzen, Daniel H.; Grishin, Nick V. (26 March 2019). "Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (13). Supporting Information: Appendix pp.10–24. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.6232L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1821304116. PMC 6442542. PMID 30877254.
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