Phocides
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Phocidini |
| Genus: | Phocides Hübner, [1819] |
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Phocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini,[1] of which it is the namesake genus.
The distribution of the genus is primarily Neotropical, but a few species occur in the Nearctic.
Species
[edit]- Phocides belus Godman & Salvin, [1893] - Mexico
- Phocides charon (C. & R. Felder, 1859) - Brazil, Paraguay
- Phocides distans (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
- P. distans distans - Venezuela
- P. distans licinus (Möschler, 1879) - Colombia, Panama
- P. distans silva Evans, 1952 - Peru
- Phocides johnsoni Bell, 1947 - Colombia
- Phocides lincea (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) - Brazil
- Phocides metrodorus Bell, 1932
- P. metrodorus metrodorus - Colombia
- P. metrodorus metron Evans, 1952 - Paraguay
- P. metrodorus nigrescens Bell, 1938 - Colombia
- Phocides novalis Evans, 1952 - Peru
- Phocides oreides (Hewitson, [1875])
- P. oreides colombiana Bell, 1938 - Colombia
- P. oreides oreides (Hewitson, [1875]) - Peru, Bolivia
- Phocides padrona Evans, 1952 - Peru
- Phocides partia Evans, 1952 - Peru
- Phocides perkinsi (Kaye, 1931) - Jamaica
- Phocides perillus (Mabille, 1888) - Colombia
- Phocides petroleum Siewert, Leviski, Mielke & Casagrande, 2018 - Colombia
- Phocides pialia (Hewitson, 1857) - Mexico to Brazil
- P. pialia pialia - Brazil
- P. pialia intermedia Mielke, 1992 - Brazil (Minas Gerais)
- P. pialia maximus (Mabille, 1888) - Brazil
- Phocides pigmalion (Cramer, [1779]) – mangrove skipper – south Florida to Argentina, Antilles, Colombia, Mexico
- P. pigmalion pigmalion (Cramer, [1779])
- P. pigmalion bicolora (Boddaert, 1783)
- P. pigmalion batabano (Lucas, 1857) - Cuba, Tropical America
- P. pigmalion okeechobee (Worthington, 1881) - Florida
- P. pigmalion hewitsonius (Mabille, 1883) - Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Bolivia
- P. pigmalion batabanoides (Holland, 1903) - Bahamas
- Phocides polybius (Fabricius, 1793) – guava skipper – southern Texas, Mexico to Argentina, Central America, South America
- P. polybius polybius - Suriname, Guyana
- P. polybius lilea (Reakirt, [1867]) - Texas, Mexico to Colombia, Brazil
- P. polybius phanias (Burmeister, 1880) - Argentina, Brazil
- Phocides thermus (Mabille, 1883) - Central America
- P. thermus thermus - Colombia
- P. thermus valgus (Mabille, 1883) - French Guiana
- P. thermus bellina Evans, 1952 - Ecuador
- Phocides urania (Westwood, [1852]) - Mexico, Texas
- Phocides vida (Butler, 1872) - Costa Rica, Panama
- Phocides vulcanides Röber, 1925 - Colombia
- Phocides yokhara (Butler, 1870)
- P. yokhara yokhara - Peru
- P. yokhara charonotis (Hewitson, 1874) - Bolivia, Peru
- P. yokhara dryas Le Cerf, 1922 - Peru
- P. yokhara inca Le Cerf, 1922 - Peru
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Phocides.
- ^ 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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