Creonpyge

Creonpyge is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae. The genus is monotypic containing the single species Creonpyge creon found in Costa Rica and Colombia.

Creonpyge
Creonpyge creon depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Creonpyge
Mielke, 2002[1]
Type species
Pyrrhopyga [sic] creon
H. Druce, 1874
Species
  • C. creon (Druce, 1874)
  • C. c. creon (Druce, 1874)
  • C. c. liliana (Nicolay & Small, 1969)
  • C. c. taylori (Nicolay & Small, 1981)

References
  1. Mielke, Olaf H. H. (2002). "Pyrrhopyginae: gêneros novos e revalidados (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae)". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 19 (1): 224–225. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000100020.


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