Porphyrogenes

Porphyrogenes

Porphyrogenes and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Porphyrogenes Watson, 1893

Porphyrogenes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.^[1]

Species

Porphyrogenes boliva Evans, 1952 Venezuela
Porphyrogenes despecta (Butler, 1870)
- P. despecta despecta Brazil (Pará, Bahia),
- P. despecta cervinus (Plötz, 1883) Brazil
Porphyrogenes glavia Evans, 1952 Panama
Porphyrogenes passalus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
- P. passalus passalus Brazil (Amazonas) to Bolivia, Venezuela
- P. passalus omphale (Butler, 1871) Venezuela
Porphyrogenes pausias (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil (Amazonas)
Porphyrogenes probus (Möschler, 1877) Surinam, Colombia
Porphyrogenes sororcula (Mabille & Boullet, 1912) French Guiana
Porphyrogenes spanda Evans, 1952 Brazil (Pará)
Porphyrogenes sparta Evans, 1952 Brazil (Pará)
Porphyrogenes spoda Evans, 1952 Panama
Porphyrogenes stupa Evans, 1952 type locality unknown
Porphyrogenes suva Evans, 1952 Peru
Porphyrogenes vulpecula (Plötz, 1882)
- P. vulpecula vulpecula Brazil, Panama
- P. vulpecula immaculata (Skinner, 1920) Peru
Porphyrogenes zohra (Möschler, 1879)
- P. zohra zohra Venezuela, Peru, Honduras
- P. zohra stresa Evans, 1952 Peru

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