Argyrophorus

Type species by monotypy is Argyrophorus argenteus Blanchard, 1852.^[1] Lamas recognised four species in the Neotropics, including the type species and three undescribed species.^[2]

Several species of southern temperate satyrinae have been assigned initially to the genus Argyrophorus, but taxonomic work during the 1950s and 1960s placed many of these in distinct genera.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} The recent description of a new species, with two distinct subspecies, raised the question of the validity of those genera (Neomaniola, Pampasatyrus, Pamperis, Punargenteus, Etcheverrius, Palmaris, Stuardosatyrus, Chilanella and Pseudocercyonis), but did not provided a resolved and conclusive synonymy for the group.^[8]

Traditionally Argyrophorus has been considered a representative of the subtribe Pronophilina, but Viloria found it to be closer related to the Hypocystina.^[9] This later arrangement has been challenged by phylogenetic analysis based on molecular data.^[10][11]