Duskywing

Duskywings
Erynnis tages
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Pyrginae
Tribe:	Pyrgini
Genus:	Erynnis Schrank, 1801
Erynnis Species
See text.

Erynnis is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the duskywings. Erynnis is found in the Neotropical ecozone and across the Palearctic but the highest species diversity is in the Nearctic.

Species and notable subspecies

Listed alphabetically.

• Erynnis afranius (Lintner, 1878) – Afranius duskywing
• Erynnis baptisiae (Forbes, 1936) – wild indigo duskywing
• Erynnis brizo (Boisduval & LeConte, [1837]) – sleepy duskywing
  • Erynnis brizo burgessi (Skinner, 1914) – Rocky Mountain sleepy duskywing
• Erynnis funeralis (Scudder & Burgess, 1870) – funereal duskywing
• Erynnis horatius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870) – Horace's duskywing
• Erynnis icelus (Scudder & Burgess, 1870) – dreamy duskywing
• Erynnis juvenalis (Fabricius, 1793) – Juvenal's duskywing
• Erynnis lucilius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870) – columbine duskywing
• Erynnis martialis (Scudder, 1869) – mottled duskywing
• Erynnis marloyi (Boisduval, [1834]) – inky skipper
• Erynnis mercurius (Dyar, 1926) Mexico
• Erynnis montana (Bremer, 1861) South China, Formosa, Amur, Japan
• Erynnis meridianus Bell, 1927 – meridian duskywing – California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico
• Erynnis pacuvius (Lintner, [1878]) – Pacuvius duskywing, Dyar's duskywing, or buckthorn dusky wing
  • Erynnis pacuvius callidus (Grinnell, 1905) – Californian Pacuvius duskywing
• Erynnis pathan Evans, 1949 Ghissar, Chitral, North Baluchistan
• Erynnis pelias (Leech, 1891) West China
• Erynnis persius (Scudder, 1863) – Persius duskywing or hairy duskywing
  • Erynnis persius fredericki (HA Freeman, 1943) – eastern Persius duskywing
• Erynnis popoviana Nordmann, 1851 Mongolia, North China, East China, Central China, Ussuri
• Erynnis propertius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870) – Propertius duskywing or western oak duskywing
• Erynnis scudderi (Skinner, 1914) – Scudder's duskywing Mexico, Arizona
• Erynnis tages (Linnaeus, 1758) – dingy skipper
• Erynnis telemachus Burns, 1960 – Rocky Mountain duskywing Arizona
• Erynnis tristis (Boisduval 1852) – mournful duskywing – Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Mexico to Colombia, Central America
  • Erynnis tristis tatius (WH Edwards, 1882) – Tatius duskywing – Arizona, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, to Colombia
• Erynnis zarucco (Lucas, 1857) – zarucco duskywing

External links

• Genus Erynnis page from BugGuide.net
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
• Species records from University of Colorado Museum
• Northeastern Mexico Butterfly List
• Images representing Erynnis at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Erynnis Distribution (in French)