Phyciodes

Phyciodes, the crescents or crescent spots (like some related genera) is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae in the family Nymphalidae.

Species

In alphabetical order:

Phyciodes batesii (Reakirt, 1865) – tawny crescent
Phyciodes cocyta (Cramer, [1777]) – northern crescent
Phyciodes graphica (R. Felder, 1869) – Vesta crescent
Phyciodes mylitta (W. H. Edwards, 1861) – Mylitta crescent
Phyciodes orseis W. H. Edwards, 1871 – Orseis crescent
Phyciodes pallescens (R. Felder, 1869) – Mexican crescent
Phyciodes pallida or Phyciodes pallidus (W. H. Edwards, 1864) – pale crescent or pallid crescentspot
Phyciodes picta (W. H. Edwards, 1865) – painted crescent
Phyciodes phaon (W. H. Edwards, 1864) – Phaon crescent
Phyciodes pulchella (Boisduval, 1852) – field crescent
Phyciodes texana (W. H. Edwards, 1863) – Texan crescent
Phyciodes tharos (Drury, [1773]) – pearl crescent