Heliopetes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.
Species These species belong to the genus Heliopetes:
Heliopetes alana (Reakirt, 1868) (alana white-skipper) Heliopetes americanus (Blanchard, 1852) Heliopetes arsalte (Linnaeus, 1758) (veined white-skipper) Heliopetes chimbo Evans, 1953 Heliopetes domicella (Erichson, 1849) (Erichson's white-skipper) Heliopetes ericetorum (Boisduval, 1852) (northern white-skipper) Heliopetes laviana (Hewitson, 1868) (laviana white-skipper) Heliopetes leucola (Hewitson, 1868) Heliopetes libra Evans, 1944 Heliopetes macaira (Reakirt, 1867) (Turk's-cap white-skipper) Heliopetes marginata Hayward, 1940 Heliopetes nivella (Mabille, 1883) Heliopetes ochroleuca J. Zikán, 1938 Heliopetes omrina (A. Butler, 1870) (stained white-skipper) Heliopetes orbigera (Mabille, 1888) Heliopetes petrus (Hübner, ) Heliopetes purgia Schaus, 1902 Heliopetes sublinea Schaus, 1902 (east-mexican white-skipper)
References Heliopetes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
, 1937: New genera and species of Neotropical Hesperiidae with notes on some others (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). American Museum Novitates 914: 1–17. Full article: . 1944: An analysis of the genus Heliopetes Billberg (Lepidoptera-Hesperiidae) with genitalia drawings. Entomol., London, 77: 179–185. , 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea.
External links Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Heliopetes at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms