Phocides

Phocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini, of which it is the namesake genus.

Phocides
Phocides pigmalion
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Phocidini
Genus: Phocides
Hübner, [1819]
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Erycides Hübner, [1819]
  • Dysenius Scudder, 1872

The distribution of the genus is primarily Neotropical, but a few species occur in the Nearctic.

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