Aguna
Aguna aurunce Fig. 20

Aguna asander Fig. 24.

Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Eudaminae
Genus: Aguna
Williams, 1927
Synonyms
  • Tmetocerus Poujade, 1895

Aguna is a genus of Neotropical skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae).

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Aguna:[1][2]

  • Aguna albistria (Plötz, 1880)
    • A. albistria albistria (Mabille, 1888) – Brazil
    • A. albistria leucogramma (Mabille, 1888) – southeast Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela (Suriname?)
  • Aguna asander (Hewitson, 1867) – gold-spotted aguna – type locality Brazil
    • A. asander asander (Hewitson, 1867) – southern U.S. (as stray) to Argentina
    • A. asander haitensis (Mabille & Boullet, 1912) – Cuba and Hispaniola
    • A. asander jasper Evans, 1952 – Jamaica
  • Aguna aurunce Hewitson, 1867 – type locality Brazil
    • A. aurunce aurunce (Plötz, 1880)
    • A. aurunce hypozonius (Plötz, 1880) – south east Mexico to Venezuela
  • Aguna camagura (R. Williams, 1926) – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna cirrus Evans, 1952 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna claxon Evans, 1952 – emerald aguna – Cuba, southern Texas to Colombia and Suriname
  • Aguna clina Evans, 1952 – type locality Colombia
  • Aguna coeloides Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – southeastern Mexico to southern Brazil
  • Aguna coelus (Stoll, 1781) – Stoll's aguna – Costa Rica and Panama to Peru and central Brazil
  • Aguna ganna (Möschler, 1879) – Ganna aguna – Costa Rica to Colombia and Venezuela
  • Aguna glaphyrus (Mabille, 1888) – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna latifascia Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Ecuador
  • Aguna latimacula Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna longicauda Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna megaeles (Mabille, 1888)
    • A. megaeles malia Evans, 1952 – type locality Venezuela
    • A. megaeles megaeles (Mabille, 1888) – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna mesodentata Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna metophis (Latreille, [1824]) – long-tailed aguna – south Texas to south Brazil
  • Aguna nicolayi Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna panama Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – Panamanian aguna – Honduras to Venezuela
  • Aguna parva Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna penicillata Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna prasinus Siewert, Leviski, O. Mielke & Casagrande, 2015
  • Aguna similis Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna spatulata Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna spicata Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna squamalba Austin & O. Mielke, 1998 – type locality Brazil
  • Aguna venezuelae O. Mielke, 1971 – type locality Venezuela

References

  1. Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2009). "Aguna". The Tree of Life Web Project.
  2. Funet
  • Austin, George T., Olaf H. H. Mielke. 2008. Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: Porphyrogenes Watson (Lepidoptera: Pyrginae: Eudamini), with descriptions of new species from Central and South America Insecta Mundi 0044:1-56


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