Xeniades (butterfly) explained

Xeniades is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Recognised species in the genus Xeniades include:^[1]

• Xeniades chalestra Hewitson, 1866
• Xeniades difficilis Draudt, [1924]
• Xeniades hermoda (Hewitson, 1870)
• Xeniades laureatus (Draudt, 1924)
• Xeniades orchamus (Cramer, 1777)
• Xeniades pteras Godman, 1900
• Xeniades quadrata (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
• Xeniades pteras (Hewitson, 1870)
• Xeniades putumayo (Constantino and Salazar, 2013)
• Xeniades rinda (Evans, 1955)
• Xeniades victoria Evans, [1955]

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

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.