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Paracarystus

Paracarystus is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

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Paracarystus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subtribe: Moncina
Genus: Paracarystus
Godman, 1900

Paracarystus is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Paracarystus:

  • Paracarystus evansi Hayward, 19381
  • Paracarystus hypargyra Herrich-Schäffer, [1869]2
  • Paracarystus menestries (Latreille, [1824])1
  • Paracarystus ranka (Evans, 1955)1


References

References

  1. Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2022-03-14). "Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 2022 (921). PMC 8975183. PMID 35370352.
  2. Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 0731: 1–56.