Heliopetes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.[2][3]
Species
These species belong to the genus Heliopetes:[4]
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Heliopetes alana (Reakirt, 1868) (alana white-skipper)
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Heliopetes americanus (Blanchard, 1852)
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Heliopetes arsalte (Linnaeus, 1758) (veined white-skipper)
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Heliopetes chimbo Evans, 1953
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Heliopetes domicella (Erichson, 1849) (Erichson's white-skipper)
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Heliopetes ericetorum (Boisduval, 1852) (northern white-skipper)
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Heliopetes laviana (Hewitson, 1868) (laviana white-skipper)
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Heliopetes leucola (Hewitson, 1868)
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Heliopetes libra Evans, 1944
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Heliopetes macaira (Reakirt, 1867) (Turk's-cap white-skipper)
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Heliopetes marginata Hayward, 1940
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Heliopetes nivella (Mabille, 1883)
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Heliopetes ochroleuca J. Zikán, 1938
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Heliopetes omrina (A. Butler, 1870) (stained white-skipper)
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Heliopetes orbigera (Mabille, 1888)
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Heliopetes petrus (Hübner, [1819])
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Heliopetes purgia Schaus, 1902
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Heliopetes sublinea Schaus, 1902 (east-mexican white-skipper)
References
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Bell, E.L., 1937: New genera and species of Neotropical Hesperiidae with notes on some others (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). American Museum Novitates 914: 1-17. Full article: [1].
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Evans, W.H. 1944: An analysis of the genus Heliopetes Billberg (Lepidoptera-Hesperiidae) with genitalia drawings. Entomol., London, 77: 179-185.
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Lamas, G., 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea.
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