Phyciodes

Phyciodes, the crescents or crescent spots (like some related genera) is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae in the family Nymphalidae. thumb|thumbtime=8|Crescent butterfly nectaring on yellow ironweed.

==Species== In alphabetical order: Phyciodes batesii (Reakirt, 1865) – tawny crescent Phyciodes campestris Behr, 1863 Phyciodes cocyta (Cramer, [1777]) – northern crescent Phyciodes diminutor Phyciodes eucrasia Zikán, 1937 Phyciodes graphica (R. Felder, 1869) – Vesta crescent Phyciodes herlani Bauer, 1975 Phyciodes melini Bryk, 1953 Phyciodes metharmeoides (Fassl, 1922) Phyciodes mirabilis Hayward, 1967 Phyciodes montana Behr, 1863 Phyciodes mylitta (W. H. Edwards, 1861) – Mylitta crescent Phyciodes orseis W. H. Edwards, 1871 – Orseis crescent Phyciodes pallescens (R. Felder, 1869) – Mexican crescent Phyciodes pallida or Phyciodes pallidus (W. H. Edwards, 1864) – pale crescent or pallid crescentspot Phyciodes phaon (W. H. Edwards, 1864) – Phaon crescent Phyciodes picta (W. H. Edwards, 1865) – painted crescent Phyciodes pulchella (Boisduval, 1852) – field crescent Phyciodes texana (W. H. Edwards, 1863) – Texan crescent Phyciodes tharos (Drury, [1773]) – pearl crescent Phyciodes vesta (Edwards, 1869)