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Butterfly genus known as grizzled skippers
Pyrgus is a
genus in the skippers
butterfly family,
Hesperiidae , known as the grizzled skippers . The name "checkered" or "chequered skipper" may also be applied to some species, but also refers to species in the genera
Burnsius and
Carterocephalus . They occur in the
Holarctic with an additional group of species extending to the
Neotropic .
In 2019, most of the species of Pyrgus found in the North, Central, or South America were moved to the genera
Burnsius ,
Chirgus , and
Heliopetes . The remaining Pyrgus species found in the
New World are Pyrgus centaureae , ruralis , scriptura , and xanthus .
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Species
These species belong to the genus Pyrgus :
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Pyrgus accretus (Verity, 1925)
Pyrgus aladaghensis de Prins & van der Poorten, 1995 (aladag skipper)
Pyrgus alpinus Erschoff, 1874
Pyrgus alveus (Hübner, 1803) (large grizzled skipper)
Pyrgus andromedae (Wallengren, 1853) (alpine grizzled skipper)
Pyrgus armoricanus (Oberthür, 1910) (oberthür's grizzled skipper)
Pyrgus bieti (Oberthür, 1886)
Pyrgus bolkariensis de Prins & van der Poorten, 1995 (bolkar skipper)
Pyrgus cacaliae (Rambur, 1839) (dusky grizzled skipper)
Pyrgus carlinae (Rambur, 1839) (carline skipper)
Pyrgus carthami (Hübner, 1813) (safflower skipper)
Pyrgus centaureae (Rambur, 1842) (northern grizzled skipper)
Pyrgus centralitaliae (Verity, 1920)
Pyrgus chapmani Warren, 1926
Pyrgus cinarae (Rambur, 1839) (sandy grizzled skipper)
Pyrgus cirsii (Rambur, 1839) (cinquefoil skipper)
Pyrgus foulquieri (Oberthür, 1910) (foulquier's grizzled skipper)
Pyrgus iliensis (Reverdin, 1912)
Pyrgus jupei (Alberti, 1967) (caucasian skipper)
Pyrgus maculatus Bremer & Grey, 1853
Pyrgus malvae (Linnaeus, 1758) (grizzled skipper)
Pyrgus malvoides (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) (southern grizzled skipper)
Pyrgus melotis Duponchel, 1832 (aegean skipper)
Pyrgus nepalensis Higgins, 1984
Pyrgus onopordi (Rambur, 1839) (rosy grizzled skipper)
Pyrgus picenus Verity, 1920
Pyrgus pontica Reverdin, 1914
Pyrgus ruralis (Boisduval, 1852) (two-banded checkered skipper)
Pyrgus scriptura (Boisduval, 1852) (small checkered skipper)
Pyrgus serratulae (Rambur, 1839) (olive skipper)
Pyrgus sibirica (Reverdin, 1911)
Pyrgus sidae (Esper, 1784) (yellow-banded skipper)
Pyrgus speyeri (Staudinger, 1887)
Pyrgus warrenensis (Verity, 1928) (warren's skipper)
Pyrgus xanthus W. H. Edwards, 1878 (mountain checkered skipper)
References and external links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Pyrgus .
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Li, Wenlin; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Zhang, Jing; et al. (2019).
"Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 116 (13): 6232–6237.
Bibcode :
2019PNAS..116.6232L .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1821304116 .
PMC
6442542 .
PMID
30877254 .
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"Pyrgus genus Information" . BugGuide.net . Retrieved 2023-03-30 .
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"Pyrgus " . GBIF . Retrieved 2021-09-30 .
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Zhang, J; Cong, Q; Burns, JM; Grishin, NV (2022).
"Checking the checkered taxonomy of Plötz's checkered skippers (Hesperiidae: Pyrgini)" . Taxon Rep Int Lepid Surv . 10 (5).
doi :
10.5281/zenodo.6510282 .
PMC
9076161 .
PMID
35530660 .
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Pelham, Jonathan P. (2021).
A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (Report).
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Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Opler, Paul A.; et al. (2019).
"Changes to North American butterfly names" (PDF) . The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey . 8 (2): 1–12.
ISSN
2643-4806 .
PMC
8570546 .
PMID
34746798 .