Heliopetes

Heliopetes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

These species belong to the genus Heliopetes:

Heliopetes alana <small>(Reakirt, 1868)</small> (alana white-skipper)

Heliopetes americanus <small>(Blanchard, 1852)</small>

Heliopetes arsalte <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> (veined white-skipper)

Heliopetes chimbo <small>Evans, 1953</small>

Heliopetes domicella <small>(Erichson, 1849)</small> (Erichson's white-skipper)

Heliopetes ericetorum <small>(Boisduval, 1852)</small> (northern white-skipper)

Heliopetes laviana <small>(Hewitson, 1868)</small> (laviana white-skipper)

Heliopetes leucola <small>(Hewitson, 1868)</small>

Heliopetes libra <small>Evans, 1944</small>

Heliopetes macaira <small>(Reakirt, 1867)</small> (Turk's-cap white-skipper)

Heliopetes marginata <small>Hayward, 1940</small>

Heliopetes nivella <small>(Mabille, 1883)</small>

Heliopetes ochroleuca <small>J. Zikán, 1938</small>

Heliopetes omrina <small>(A. Butler, 1870)</small> (stained white-skipper)

Heliopetes orbigera <small>(Mabille, 1888)</small>

Heliopetes petrus <small>(Hübner, [1819])</small>

Heliopetes purgia <small>Schaus, 1902</small>

Heliopetes sublinea <small>Schaus, 1902</small> (east-mexican white-skipper)

References

• , 1937: New genera and species of Neotropical Hesperiidae with notes on some others (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). American Museum Novitates 914: 1–17. Full article: http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/2172/1/N0914.pdf.
• 1944: An analysis of the genus Heliopetes Billberg (Lepidoptera-Hesperiidae) with genitalia drawings. Entomol., London, 77: 179–185.
• , 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea.

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Heliopetes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms