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Phocides
Sign in to savePhocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini, of which it is the namesake genus.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyHesperiidae
Phocides es un género de lepidópteros ditrisios de la subfamilia Eudaminae dentro de la familia Hesperiidae.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 35
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UMNH, EMEC, TAMU, YPM
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, Bolivia, Mexico, Uruguay, Panama, United States, Honduras, Belize
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- Phocides pigmalion in Secret Woods.JPG
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Phocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini, of which it is the namesake genus.
The distribution of the genus is primarily Neotropical, but a few species occur in the Nearctic.
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