Poanes

Poanes
Broad-winged skipper (Poanes viator)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
Tribe: Hesperiini
Genus: Poanes
Scudder, 1872
Synonyms
  • Phycanassa Scudder, 1872

Poanes is a genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae) distributed throughout North and Central America. The larvae feed on grasses and sedges. The genus was erected by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1872.

Species

In 2019, several species were moved from Poanes to a new genus, Lon. The species remaining in Poanes include:

Former species

  1. ↑ Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick V. (11 October 2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 0731: 1–56.
  2. ↑ Savela, Markku (August 17, 2013). "Poanes Scudder, 1872". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 10, 2020.