Polygonus (genus)
Appearance
Polygonus | |
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Polygonus and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Subtribe: | Telemiadina |
Genus: | Polygonus Hübner, [1825] |
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Polygonus is a genus of Nearctic and Neotropical spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
[edit]The following two species are recognised in the genus Polygonus:
- Polygonus leo (Gmelin, [1790]) – hammock skipper – Argentina
- P. leo leo (Gmelin, [1790]) – Brazil to Florida, Hispaniola
- P. leo arizonensis (Skinner, 1911) – south California, Arizona, west Texas, south New Mexico, Mexico
- P. leo hagar Evans, 1952 – Jamaica
- P. leo histrio Röber, 1925 – Arizona
- P. leo pallida Röber, 1925 – Peru
- Polygonus savigny (Latreille, [1824]) – Manuel's skipper – St. Christoper, Montserrat, St. Barthélémy, south Florida, Antilles, Argentina, Central America, South America
- P. savigny savigny (Latreille, [1824]) – Brazil (Santa Catarina),
- P. savigny punctus Bell & Comstock, 1948 – Saint Vincent[1]
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