Biology:Polythrix

Short description: Genus of butterflies

Polythrix
Polythrix octomaculata depicted in Sepp's Surinaamsche vlinders : naar het leven geteekend [1844]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Polythrix Watson, 1893

Polythrix is a Neotropical and Nearctic genus in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae).

Polythrix and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World

Species

• asine species group
  • Polythrix asine (Hewitson, 1867) Mexico to Nicaragua to Peru
  • Polythrix roma Evans, 1952 Brazil (Pará, Amazonas), Peru
  • Polythrix hirtius (Butler, 1870) Venezuela
  • Polythrix gyges Evans, 1952 Venezuela, Peru
  • Polythrix mexicanus Freeman, 1969 Mexico, Texas
• octomaculata species group
  • Polythrix auginus (Hewitson, 1867) Mexico, Guyana, Guyane, Colombia, Brazil (Amazonas)
  • Polythrix caunus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) Mexico, Paraguay
  • Polythrix ceculus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) Brazil (Rio de Janeiro),
  • Polythrix eudoxus (Stoll, 1781) Suriname
  • Polythrix kanshul Shuey, 1991 Mexico, Panama
  • Polythrix maizae Hellebuyck, 1998 Nicaragua
  • Polythrix metallescens (Mabille, 1888) Brazil (Amazonas, Pará)
  • Polythrix minvanes (Williams, 1926) Brazil (Mato Grosso)
  • Polythrix octomaculata (Sepp, [1844]) Mexico, Guatemala to Brazil , Suriname, Colombia, Argentina

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• images representing Polythrix at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Wikidata ☰ Q1766048 entry