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.
Species
Phocides batabano (Lucas, 1857) P. batabano okeechobee (Worthington, 1881) - Florida P. batabano batabanoides (Holland, 1903) - Bahamas P. batabano batabano (Lucas, 1857) - Cuba, Cayman Phocides belus Godman & Salvin, - Mexico Phocides bicolora (Boddaert, 1783) - Hispanola Phocides charon (C. & R. Felder, 1859) - Brazil, Paraguay Phocides distans (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) P. distans distans - Venezuela P. distans licinus (Möschler, 1879) - Colombia, Panama P. distans silva Evans, 1952 - Peru Phocides johnsoni Bell, 1947 - Colombia Phocides lincea (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) - Brazil Phocides metrodorus Bell, 1932 P. metrodorus metrodorus - Colombia P. metrodorus metron Evans, 1952 - Paraguay P. metrodorus nigrescens Bell, 1938 - Colombia Phocides novalis Evans, 1952 - Peru Phocides oreides (Hewitson, ) P. oreides colombiana Bell, 1938 - Colombia P. oreides oreides (Hewitson, ) - Peru, Bolivia Phocides padrona Evans, 1952 - Peru Phocides partia Evans, 1952 - Peru Phocides perkinsi (Kaye, 1931) - Jamaica Phocides perillus (Mabille, 1888) - Colombia Phocides petroleum Siewert, Leviski, Mielke & Casagrande, 2018 - Colombia Phocides pialia (Hewitson, 1857) - Mexico to Brazil P. pialia pialia - Brazil P. pialia intermedia Mielke, 1992 - Brazil (Minas Gerais) P. pialia maximus (Mabille, 1888) - Brazil Phocides pigmalion (Cramer, ) – P. pigmalion pigmalion (Cramer, ) - Central America to Argentina P. pigmalion hewitsonius (Mabille, 1883) - Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Bolivia Phocides polybius (Fabricius, 1793) – guava skipper P. polybius polybius - Suriname, Guyana P. polybius lilea (Reakirt, ) - Texas, Mexico, Central America to Colombia, Brazil P. polybius phanias (Burmeister, 1880) - Argentina, Brazil Phocides thermus (Mabille, 1883) P. thermus thermus - Colombia P. thermus valgus (Mabille, 1883) - French Guiana P. thermus bellina Evans, 1952 - Ecuador Phocides urania (Westwood, ) - Mexico, Texas Phocides vida (Butler, 1872) - Costa Rica, Panama Phocides vulcanides Röber, 1925 - Colombia Phocides yokhara (Butler, 1870) P. yokhara yokhara - Peru P. yokhara charonotis (Hewitson, 1874) - Bolivia, Peru P. yokhara dryas Le Cerf, 1922 - Peru P. yokhara inca Le Cerf, 1922 - Peru
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Phocides at funet
External links
Images representing Phocides at Consortium for the Barcode of Life