Calephelis

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Riodinidae
Subfamilia: Riodininae
Tribus: Riodinini
Genus: Calephelis
Species: C. acapulcoensis – C. argyrodines – C. arizonensis – C. aymaran – C. azteca – C. bajaensis – C. braziliensis – C. brevis – C. browni – C. burgeri – C. candiope – C. canus – C. clenchi – C. costaricola – C. distinctus – C. dreisbachi – C. exiguus – C. freemani – C. fulmen – C. guatemala – C. huasteca – C. inca – C. indistinctus – C. iris – C. laverna – C. matheri – C. maya – C. mexicana – C. montezuma – C. nemesis – C. nilus – C. perditalis – C. rawsoni – C. rotundum – C. sacapulas – C. schausi – C. sinaloensis – C. sixola – C. sodalis – C. stallingsi – C. tapuyo – C. tikal – C. velutina – C. virginiensis – C. wellingi – C. wrighti – C. yautepequensis – C. yucatana
Name

Calephelis Grote & Robinson, 1869

Type species: Erycina virginiensis Guérin-Méneville, 1831
Synonyms

Lephelisca Barnes & Lindsey, 1922, Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 15: 93. TS: Erycina virginiensis Guérin-Méneville, 1831

References

Austin, George T., 1993: Three new taxa of Calephelis from Costa Rica (Lycaenidae: Riodininae), Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 30 (3-4): 237–244. [1]
Austin, George T., 1993: A new species of Calephelis from Guatemala (Lycaenidae: Riodininae), Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 30 (3-4): 245–247. [2].
Austin, George T., 2008: Riodinidae of Rodônia, Brazil: Calephelis, with descriptions of new species, Tropical Lepidoptera 18 (2): 102–112.
Hall, J.P.W. & D.J. Harvey, 2002: A Phylogenetic Review of Charis and Calephelis (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 95 (4): 407–421.[3]
Lamas, Gerardo, 2004: Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea.
McAlpine, Wilbur S., 1971: A revision of the butterfly genus Calephis (Riodinidae), Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 10 (1): 1–125. [4]

Calephelis is a genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Americas. There are 43 species in the Neotropical realm and 11 species in the Nearctic.

Larva host plants

Species of Calephelis feed on Asteraceae, Ranunculaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Bromeliaceae. Recorded larval host plants are in the genera Senecio, Parthenium, Mikania, Cirsium, Baccharis, Clematis, Encelia, Eupatorium, Ageratina, Bebbia, Acalypha, Bromelia, Chromolaena, Calea, Fleischmannia and Verbesina.[1]
Species list

Calephelis acapulcoensis McAlpine, 1971 Mexico
Calephelis argyrodines (Bates, 1866) Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica
Calephelis arizonensis McAlpine, 1971 Arizona
Calephelis aymaran McAlpine, 1971 Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil
Calephelis azteca McAlpine, 1971 Mexico
Calephelis bajaensis McAlpine, 1971 Baja California
Calephelis borealis (Grote & Robinson, 1866) New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri
Calephelis braziliensis McAlpine, 1971 Brazil
Calephelis browni McAlpine, 1971 Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador
Calephelis burgeri McAlpine, 1971 Colombia
Calephelis candiope (Druce, 1904) Colombia
Calephelis clenchi McAlpine, 1971 Guatemala
Calephelis costaricola Strand, 1916 Mexico, Honduras, Panama
Calephelis dreisbachi McAlpine, 1971 Arizona, Mexico
Calephelis exiguus Austin, 1993 Costa Rica
Calephelis freemani McAlpine, 1971 Texas
Calephelis fulmen Stichel, 1910 Mexico to Panama
Calephelis guatemala McAlpine, 1971 Guatemala
Calephelis huasteca McAlpine, 1971 Mexico
Calephelis inca McAlpine, 1971 Costa Rica to Brazil
Calephelis iris (Staudinger, 1876) Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia
Calephelis laverna (Godman & Salvin, [1886]) Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Trinidad, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, northern Brazil
Calephelis matheri McAlpine, 1971 Mexico
Calephelis maya McAlpine, 1971 Mexico
Calephelis mexicana McAlpine, 1971 Mexico
Calephelis montezuma McAlpine, 1971 Mexico
Calephelis muticum McAlpine, 1937 Pennsylvania, Great Lakes states, Minnesota
Calephelis nemesis (Edwards, 1871) New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California
Calephelis nilus (C. & R. Felder, 1861) Venezuela
Calephelis perditalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 Arizona, Texas, Mexico, Central America, Venezuela
Calephelis rawsoni McAlpine, 1939 Arizona, Texas, Mexico
Calephelis sacapulas McAlpine, 1971 Guatemala
Calephelis schausi McAlpine, 1971 Honduras, Panama
Calephelis sinaloensis McAlpine, 1971 Mexico
Calephelis sixola McAlpine, 1971 Costa Rica, Panama
Calephelis sodalis Austin, 1993 Costa Rica, Panama
Calephelis stallingsi McAlpine, 1971 Mexico, British Honduras, Guatemala
Calephelis tikal Austin, 1993 Guatemala
Calephelis tapuyo McAlpine, 1971 Orosi, Brazil
Calephelis velutina (Godman & Salvin, 1878) Mexico - Colombia
Calephelis virginiensis (Guérin-Méneville, 1831) Virginia, Florida, Texas, Arkansas
Calephelis wellingi McAlpine, 1971 Mexico, Guatemala
Calephelis wrighti Holland, 1930 California, Arizona, Texas, Mexico
Calephelis yautepequensis R. G. Maza & Turrent, 1977 Mexico
Calephelis yucatana McAlpine, 1971 Mexico

References

Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni y L. M. Hernández (2010) HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosts. (Consulted 2012)

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