Pyrrhopygopsis

Pyrrhopygopsis is a Neotropical genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Pyrrhopygopsis
Pyrrhopygopsis and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Pyrrhopygopsis Godman in Godman & Salvin, [1901]

Species

• Pyrrhopygopsis agaricon Druce, 1908
  • P. agaricon agaricon Colombia
  • P. agaricon nanta Evans, 1955 Ecuador
• Pyrrhopygopsis quispica (Plötz, 1886) Peru, Bolivia
• Pyrrhopygopsis romula (Druce, 1875)
  • P. romula romula Colombia
  • P. romula lugubris Druce, 1908 Bolivia
  • P. romula tenebricosa (Hewitson, 1876) Peru
• Pyrrhopygopsis socrates (Ménétriés, 1855)
  • P. socrates socrates Brazil, Paraguay, Trinidad
  • P. socrates crates Mabille & Boullet, 1912 Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
  • P. socrates orasus (Druce, 1876) Peru, Colombia

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• images representing Pyrrhopygopsis at Consortium for the Barcode of Life