Overview
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Firetips are in the family Hesperiidae, subfamily Pyrrhopyginae. They are found only in South America with the exception of one species which just reaches into the U.S.A.
Jemadia petrobas
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Taxonomy
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The Subfamily Pyrrhopyginae is a member of the Family Hesperiidae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Pyrrhopyginae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Order: Lepidoptera
Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies and Moths
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Family: Hesperiidae
Latreille, 1809 - Skippers
- Subfamily: Pyrrhopyginae - Firetips
- Family: Hesperiidae
Latreille, 1809 - Skippers
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Order: Lepidoptera
Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies and Moths
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Subfamily Pyrrhopyginae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (8): Amenis · Apyrrothrix · Jemadia · Mimoniades · Myscelus · Mysoria · Oxynetra · Pyrrhopyge
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 183 species and subspecies in the Subfamily Pyrrhopyginae.
Genera
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Amenis
Apyrrothrix
Jemadia
Mimoniades
Myscelus
Mysoria
Oxynetra
Pyrrhopyge
At least 170 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Pyrrhopyge.
More info about the Genus Pyrrhopyge may be found here.
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