Vettius Explained

Vettius is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Recognised species in the genus Vettius include:

• Vettius phyllus Cramer, 1777^[1]
• Vettius pica
• Vettius triangularis (Hübner, [1831])^[2]

Former species

• Vettius arva Evans, 1955 - transferred to Psoralis arva (Evans, 1955)
• Vettius lafrenaye (Latreille, [1824]) - synonymized with Dubiella dubius (Stoll, 1781)
• Vettius fuldai Bell, 1930 - transferred to Phlebodes fuldai (Bell, 1930)
• Vettius yalta Evans, 1955 - synonymized with Phlebodes fuldai (Bell, 1930)

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Notes and References

1. Cong . Qian . Zhang . Jing . Shen . Jinhui . Grishin . Nick . 2019 . Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) . . 0731 . 1–56.
2. Zhang . Jing . Cong . Qian . Shen . Jinhui . Grishin . Nick . 2022-03-14 . Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) . Insecta Mundi . 35370352 . en.