Agathymus

Agathymus is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae. They occur in the North American deserts. The genus was described by Hugh Avery Freeman in 1959. The larvae bore into the stems of agave plants.

These butterflies have been treated as members of the disputed skipper subfamily Megathyminae, but are also considered sufficiently distinct to be in their own family, Megathymidae, along with the genera Megathymus and Stallingsia.

Species

• species group unknown
  • Agathymus alliae (Stallings & Turner, 1957)
  • Agathymus aryxna (Dyar, 1905)
  • Agathymus belli (Freeman, 1955)
  • Agathymus carlsbadensis (Stallings & Turner, 1957)
  • Agathymus comstocki (Harbison, 1957)
  • Agathymus dawsoni Harbison, 1963
  • Agathymus diabloensis Freeman, 1962
  • Agathymus escalantei Stallings, Turner & Stallings, 1966
  • Agathymus estelleae (Stallings & Turner, 1958)
  • Agathymus evansi (Freeman, 1950)
  • Agathymus fieldi Freeman, 1960
  • Agathymus florenceae (Stallings & Turner, 1957)
  • Agathymus gentryi Roever, 1998
  • Agathymus gilberti Freeman, 1964
  • Agathymus hoffmanni (Freeman, 1952)
  • Agathymus indecisa (Butler & H. Druce, 1872)
  • Agathymus judithae (Stallings & Turner, 1957)
  • Agathymus mariae (Barnes & Benjamin, 1924)
  • Agathymus micheneri Stallings, Turner & Stallings, 1961
  • Agathymus neumoegeni (Edwards, 1882)
  • Agathymus polingi (Skinner, 1905)
  • Agathymus remingtoni (Stallings & Turner, 1958)
  • Agathymus rethon (Dyar, 1913)
  • Agathymus ricei Stallings, Turner & Stallings, 1966
  • Agathymus rindgei Freeman, 1964
  • Agathymus stephensi (Skinner, 1912)
• The baueri species group
  • Agathymus baueri (Stallings & Turner, 1954)
  • Agathymus juliae (Stallings & Turner, 1958)

References

• Freeman, 1959, Lepid. News 12 (3/4): 82
• Freeman, H.A., 1960: Notes on Agathymus in Texas, and the description of a new species from Mexico (Megathymidae). Journal Lepidop. Soc. 14 (1): 58–62. Full article: [1]
• Lamas, Gerardo, 2004, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea.