Cobalopsis Explained

Cobalopsis is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

• Cobalopsis autumna Plötz, 1883
• Cobalopsis catocala Herrich-Schäffer, 1869
• Cobalopsis cocalus (Hayward, 1939)
• Cobalopsis dagon Evans, W.H., [1955]
• Cobalopsis dictys (Godman, 1900)^[1]
• Cobalopsis dorpa de Jong, 1983
• Cobalopsis monotona Mielke, 1989
• Cobalopsis nero Herrich-Schäffer, 1869
• Cobalopsis obscurior Hayward, 1934
• Cobalopsis similis Mielke, 1989
• Cobalopsis tanna de Jong, 1983
• Cobalopsis valerius (Möschler, 1879)
• Cobalopsis zetus (Bell, 1942)

Former species

• Cobalopsis brema Bell, 1959 - synonymized with Eutus rastaca (Schaus, 1902)
• Cobalopsis dyscritus (Mabille, 1891) - synonymized with Cobalopsis autumna (Mabille, 1891)
• Cobalopsis edda (Mabille, 1891) - synonymized with Cobalopsis nero (Mabille, 1891)
• Cobalopsis elegans Hayward, 1940 - synonymized with Cobalopsis valerius
• Cobalopsis hazarma (Hewitson, 1877) - transferred to Haza hazarma (Hewitson, 1877)
• Cobalopsis latonia Schaus, 1913 - transferred to Papias latonia (Schaus, 1913)
• Cobalopsis miaba Hayward, 1940 - synonymized with Cobalopsis valerius
• Cobalopsis potaro (Williams & Bell, 1931) - synonymized with Cobalopsis valerius
• Cobalopsis venias Bell, 1942 - transferred to Lerema venias (Bell, 1942)
• Cobalopsis vorgia (Schaus, 1902) - transferred to Rectava vorgia (Schaus, 1902)

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

• • Cobalopsis at insectoid.info

Notes and References

1. Zhang . Jing . Cong . Qian . Shen . Jinhui . Grishin . Nick . 2022-03-14 . Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) . Insecta Mundi . 2022 . 921 . 35370352 . 8975183 . en.