Papias (butterfly) explained

Papias is a Neotropical genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Papias:

• Papias allubita (Butler, 1877)
• Papias amyrna (Mabille, 1891)^[1]
• Papias cascatona Mielke, 1992 - Brazil
• Papias dictys Godman, [1900] - Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama
• Papias integra (Mabille, 1891)
• Papias phaeomelas (Hübner, [1831]) - Mexico to Brazil, Trinidad, French Guiana
• Papias phainis Godman, [1900] - Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, Guyana
• Papias projectus Bell, 1942 - Ecuador
• Papias quigua Evans, 1955 - Venezuela
• Papias subcostulata (Herrich-Schäffer, 1870) - Brazil, Surinam, Honduras, Colombia, Bolivia
• Papias tristissimus Schaus, 1902 - Peru

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Funet

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.