Potamanaxas

Genus of butterflies

Potamanaxas
Potamanaxas thoria. Río Alpayacu, Mera, Ecuador.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Subfamily:
Pyrginae
Tribe:
Erynnini
Genus:
Potamanaxas

Lindsey, 1925[1]
Synonyms
  • Potamanax Watson, 1893
Crisppatch skipper
P. tschotky, Colombia

Potamanaxas is a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

  • Potamanaxas andraemon (Mabille, 1898)
  • Potamanaxas bana Bell, 1956
  • Potamanaxas effusa (Draudt, 1922)
  • Potamanaxas flavofasciata (Hewitson, 1870)
  • Potamanaxas frenda Evans, 1953
  • Potamanaxas hirta (Weeks, 1901)
  • Potamanaxas laoma (Hewitson, 1870)
  • Potamanaxas latrea (Hewitson, 1875)
  • Potamanaxas melicertes (Godman & Salvin, [1895])
  • Potamanaxas paralus (Godman & Salvin, [1895])
  • Potamanaxas quira Bell, 1956
  • Potamanaxas thestia (Hewitson, 1870)
  • Potamanaxas thoria (Hewitson, 1870)
  • Potamanaxas tunga Bell, 1956
  • Potamanaxas unifasciata (C. & R. Felder, 1867)
  • Potamanaxas xantholeuce (Mabille, 1888)

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Potamanaxas.
Wikispecies has information related to Potamanaxas.
  1. ^ Potamanaxas at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • Bell, E.L., 1956: Descriptions of some new species of neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). American Museum Novitates 1778: 1-13. Full article: [1].
  • Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Taxon identifiers
Potamanaxas
  • Wikidata: Q1766288
  • Wikispecies: Potamanaxas
  • BioLib: 700625
  • BOLD: 3285
  • ButMoth: 23754.0
  • CoL: 92KHC
  • EoL: 20248
  • GBIF: 1950992
  • iNaturalist: 247715
  • IRMNG: 1004515
  • LepIndex: 187081
  • NCBI: 355094
  • Open Tree of Life: 749429


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