Polites (butterfly)

Polites
Tawny-edged skipper (Polites themistocles), male
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Genus:	Polites Scudder, 1872
Synonyms
Hedone (Scudder, 1872) Limochores (Scudder, 1872) Poanopsis (Godman, 1900) Pyrrhosidia (Scudder, 1874) Yvretta (Hemming, 1935)

Polites is a genus of North American butterflies of the Hesperiidae family (skippers), subfamily Hesperiinae (grass skippers).

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:^[1]

The themistocles species group:

• Polites draco (W.H. Edwards, 1871) – draco skipper
• Polites mardon (W.H. Edwards, 1881) – Mardon skipper, Cascades skipper or little Oregon skipper
• Polites norae MacNeill, 1993
• Polites peckius (W. Kirby, 1837) – Peck's skipper or yellowpatch skipper
• Polites sabuleti (Boisduval, 1852) – sandhill skipper or saltgrass skipper
• Polites themistocles (Latreille, 1824) – tawny-edged skipper

The origenes species group:

• Polites mystic (W.H. Edwards, 1863) – long dash skipper
• Polites origenes (Fabricius, 1793) – crossline skipper
• Polites pupillus (Plötz, 1882)
• Polites puxillius (Mabille, 1891)
• Polites sonora (Scudder, 1872) – Sonoran skipper

The rhesus species group:

• Polites carus (Edwards, 1883) – desert gray skipper, Carus skipper
• Polites rhesus (W.H. Edwards, 1878) – Rhesus skipper
• Polites subreticulata (Plötz, 1883)

The vibex species group:

• Polites vibex (Geyer, [1832]) – whirlabout

Unnamed species group:

• Polites baracoa (Lucas, 1857) – Baracoa skipper
• Polites bittiae Lindsey, 1925
• Polites vibicoides de Jong, 1983

References

1. Polites, funet.fi

External links

• Grass Skippers, Butterflies and Moths of North America