Proteides is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

The following two species are recognised in the genus Proteides

• Proteides maysi (Lucas, 1857) Cuba

Proteides mercurius (Fabricius, 1787) South America, Arizona

• P. m. mercurius French Guiana, Suriname

• P. m. sanantonio (Lucas, 1857) Cuba

• P. m. angasi Godman & Salvin, 1884 Dominica

• P. m. pedro (Dewitz, 1877) Puerto Rico

• P. m. jamaicensis Skinner, 1920 Jamaica

• P. m. sanchesi Bell & Comstock, 1948 Haiti

• P. m. vincenti Bell & Comstock, 1948 Saint Vincent

• P. m. grenadensis Enrico & Pinchon, 1969 Grenada

Former species

• Proteides modius Mabille, 1889 - transferred to Thoon modius (Mabille, 1889)

References

• - Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• images representing at Consortium for the Barcode of Life