The Pyrgini are a tribe in the skipper butterfly subfamily Pyrginae. Formerly, when only four tribes of Pyrginae were recognized, the Pyrgini contained the largest number of genera among these. But this overly wide delimitation has since turned out to be paraphyletic.Brower & Warren (2007)
One of the traditional Pyrginae tribes, the Eudamini, had to be raised to subfamily rank as Eudaminae. Some genera now in the Eudaminae were placed in the Pyrgini in earlier times. In addition, a number of additional tribes – Achlyodidini, Carcharodini and Erynnini – are now usually recognized again. These are close relatives of the Pyrgini sensu stricto, and may just as well be included in them as they used to be: together they do still form a monophyletic group. Most authors prefer to keep them separate however, as each is an apomorphic and biogeographically distinct lineage of the Pyrgini sensu lato. Of these newly recognized tribes, the Achlyodidini are closest to the Pyrgini, but conspicuously differ from the latter in their unusually-shaped wings.
Genera The genera of the Pyrgini, after genomic research published in 2019, are:
Anisochoria Mabille, 1877 Antigonus Hübner, 1819 Bralus Grishin, 2019 Burnsius Grishin, 2019 (New World checkered-skippers) Canesia Grishin, 2019 Carrhenes Godman & Salvin, 1895 Celotes Godman & Salvin, 1899 (streaky-skippers) Chirgus Grishin, 2019 Clito Evans, 1953 Diaeus Godman & Salvin, 1895 Eracon Godman & Salvin, 1894 Heliopetes Billberg, 1820 (white-skippers) Onenses Godman & Salvin, 1895 Paches Godman & Salvin, 1895 Plumbago Evans, 1953 Pseudodrephalys Burns, 1998 Pyrgus Hübner, 1819 (checkered-skippers) Santa Grishin, 2019 Spioniades Hübner, 1819 Systasea W. H. Edwards, 1877 (powdered-skippers) Trina Evans, 1953 Xenophanes Godman & Salvin, 1895 Zobera Freeman, 1970 Zopyrion Godman & Salvin, 1896
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References
(2007): Tree of Life Web Project – Pyrgini. Version of 2007-MAR-04. Retrieved 2009-DEC-26.