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Wikipedia / Phocides

Phocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini, of which it is the namesake genus.

The distribution of the genus is primarily Neotropical, but a few species occur in the Nearctic.

Species

Phocides batabano (Lucas, 1857)

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])

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])

  • P. pigmalion pigmalion (Cramer, [1779]) - Central America to Argentina

  • P. pigmalion hewitsonius (Mabille, 1883) - Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Bolivia

Phocides polybius (Fabricius, 1793) guava skipper

  • P. polybius polybius - Suriname, Guyana

  • P. polybius lilea (Reakirt, [1867]) - Texas, Mexico, Central America to Colombia, Brazil

  • P. polybius phanias (Burmeister, 1880) - Argentina, Brazil

Phocides thermus (Mabille, 1883)

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