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Tigasis

Tigasis is a Neotropical genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

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Tigasis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subtribe: Moncina
Genus: Tigasis
Godman, 1900 (in Godman & Salvin, [1900])
Synonyms
  • Arita Evans, 1955

Tigasis is a Neotropical genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Recognised species include:

  • Tigasis arita (Schaus, 1902)1
  • Tigasis colomus (E. Bell, 1941)
  • Tigasis corope (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
  • Tigasis perloides (Plötz, 1882)2
  • Tigasis physcoa (Hewitson, 1868)
  • Tigasis polistion (Schaus, 1902)
  • Tigasis serra (Hewitson, 1868)
  • Tigasis wellingi (Evans, 1955)1
  • Tigasis zalates Godman, [1900]3
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. Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Song, Leina; Grishin, Nick (2024). "Taxonomic advances driven by the genomic analysis of butterflies". The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey. 11 (7): 1–43.
  3. Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 0731: 1–56.
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