Heliopetes
Genus of butterflies
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Heliopetes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.[2][3]
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| Heliopetes arsalte, veined white-skipper | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Pyrginae |
| Tribe: | Pyrgini |
| Genus: | Heliopetes Billberg, 1820[1] |
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Species
These species belong to the genus Heliopetes:[4]
- Heliopetes alana (Reakirt, 1868) (alana white-skipper)
- Heliopetes americanus (Blanchard, 1852)
- Heliopetes arsalte (Linnaeus, 1758) (veined white-skipper)
- Heliopetes chimbo Evans, 1953
- Heliopetes domicella (Erichson, 1849) (Erichson's white-skipper)
- Heliopetes ericetorum (Boisduval, 1852) (northern white-skipper)
- Heliopetes laviana (Hewitson, 1868) (laviana white-skipper)
- Heliopetes leucola (Hewitson, 1868)
- Heliopetes libra Evans, 1944
- Heliopetes macaira (Reakirt, 1867) (Turk's-cap white-skipper)
- Heliopetes marginata Hayward, 1940
- Heliopetes nivella (Mabille, 1883)
- Heliopetes ochroleuca J. Zikán, 1938
- Heliopetes omrina (A. Butler, 1870) (stained white-skipper)
- Heliopetes orbigera (Mabille, 1888)
- Heliopetes petrus (Hübner, [1819])
- Heliopetes purgia Schaus, 1902
- Heliopetes sublinea Schaus, 1902 (east-mexican white-skipper)
