Heliopetes Explained

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

Species

These species belong to the genus Heliopetes:

Heliopetes alana (Reakirt, 1868) (alana white-skipper)

Heliopetes americanus (Blanchard, 1852)

Heliopetes arsalte (Linnaeus, 1758) (veined white-skipper)

Heliopetes chimbo Evans, 1953

Heliopetes domicella (Erichson, 1849) (Erichson's white-skipper)

Heliopetes ericetorum (Boisduval, 1852) (northern white-skipper)

Heliopetes laviana (Hewitson, 1868) (laviana white-skipper)

Heliopetes leucola (Hewitson, 1868)

Heliopetes libra Evans, 1944

Heliopetes macaira (Reakirt, 1867) (Turk's-cap white-skipper)

Heliopetes marginata Hayward, 1940

Heliopetes nivella (Mabille, 1883)

Heliopetes ochroleuca J. Zikán, 1938

Heliopetes omrina (A. Butler, 1870) (stained white-skipper)

Heliopetes orbigera (Mabille, 1888)

Heliopetes petrus (Hübner, [1819])

Heliopetes purgia Schaus, 1902

Heliopetes sublinea Schaus, 1902 (east-mexican white-skipper)

References

• , 1937: New genera and species of Neotropical Hesperiidae with notes on some others (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). American Museum Novitates 914: 1–17. Full article: http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/2172/1/N0914.pdf.
• 1944: An analysis of the genus Heliopetes Billberg (Lepidoptera-Hesperiidae) with genitalia drawings. Entomol., London, 77: 179–185.
• , 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea.

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Heliopetes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms