Phocides pigmalion

Phocides pigmalion (Anglice mangrove skipper) est papilio familiae Hesperiidarum, a litore ad litus in Florida paeninsulari et in Martyribus Insulis, ad meridiem per Indias Occidentalis Mexicumque ad Argentinam, singulis ad septentriones usque ad litoralem Carolinam Meridionalem errantes observatis.

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Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Insecta 
Ordo : Lepidoptera 
Familia : Hesperiidae 
Genus : Phocides 
Species : P. pigmalion 

Phocides pigmalion 
(Cramer, [1779])  

Synonyma

*Papilio pigmalion Cramer, [1779]

• Erycides pigmalion (Cramer, [1779])
• Phocides disparilis Röber, 1925
• Phocides iocularis Röber, 1925
• Phocides vulcanides Röber, 1925
• Phocides tenuistriga Mabille & Boullet, 1912
• Sphinx bicolora Boddaert, 1783
• Erycides pyres Godman & Salvin, 1879
• Eudamus batabano Lucas, 1857
• Erycides mancinus Herrich-Schäffer, 1862
• Erycides batabano Lefèbre, 1867
• Phocides aberrans Röber, 1925
• Phocides jemadides Röber, 1925

Phocides pigmalion

Latitudo alarum est 48–70 mm. Adulti a Novembri ad Augustum in Florida meridiana volare solent.

Larvae speciebus Rhizophorae mangle vescuntur. Adulti nectar ex floribus variarum plantarum sorbillant, inter quas Rhizophora mangle, Scandix pecten-veneris, Citrus, et Bougainvillea.

Subspecies

• Phocides pigmalion pigmalion (Surinamia, Columbia, Peruvia, Brasilia)
• Phocides pigmalion bicolora (Haiti)
• Phocides pigmalion batabano (Cuba, America tropica)
• Phocides pigmalion okeechobee (Florida)
• Phocides pigmalion hewitsonius (Brasilia (Amazonas), Peruvia, Bolivia)
• Phocides pigmalion batabanoides (Insulae Bahamenses)

Nexus externi

• De specie apud situm butterfliesandmoths.org

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