Urbanus

Urbanus is a genus of skipper butterflies erected by Jacob Hübner in 1807, placed to subtribe Eudamina.^[1] Species of the genus are found from the southern United States to South America.^[2]

Taxonomy

The genus has been subject to several revisions, one of which led to the type genus of subfamily Eudaminae, genus Eudamus, becoming a junior synonym of Urbanus. As a result of genome analysis of the Eudaminae, several species formerly considered part of Urbanus have been transferred to other genera, including to Cecropterus^[1] and Spicauda.^[1]

Species

Esmeralda longtail (Urbanus esmeraldus), Costa Rica

Esmeralda longtail (Urbanus esmeraldus), Costa Rica

Urbanus and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World

Except where separately referenced, this species list follows the classification of Li et al. 2019,^[1] with distribution data sourced from Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.^[2]

Subgenus Urbanoides

• Urbanus esmeraldus (A. Butler, 1877) – Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras to Brazil, Colombia
• Urbanus esma Evans, 1952 – Brazil
• Urbanus prodicus E. Bell, 1956 – Mexico
• Urbanus elmina Evans, 1952 – Ecuador
• Urbanus evona Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Guatemala
• Urbanus esta Evans, 1952 – Mexican coasts to Ecuador and Brazil^[3]
• Urbanus viridis H. Freeman, 1970 – Mexico

Subgenus Urbanus

• Urbanus velinus (Plötz, 1881) – Brazil, Guyana
• Urbanus proteus (Linnaeus, 1758) – southern US, Mexico, Central & South America
  • Urbanus proteus proteus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Mexico
  • Urbanus proteus domingo (Scudder, 1872) – Saba to Grenada, Haiti
• Urbanus magnus Steinhauser, 1981 – Ecuador
• Urbanus pronus Evans, 1952 – Central America, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay; Mexico^[4]
• Urbanus pronta Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Honduras
• Urbanus parvus Austin, 1998 – Brazil
• Urbanus longicaudus Austin, 1998 – Brazil
• Urbanus villus Austin, 1998 – Brazil
• Urbanus huancavillcas (R. Williams, 1926) – Ecuador
• Urbanus belli (Hayward, 1935) – Mexico to Bolivia to Argentina
• Urbanus bernikerni Burns, 2014
• Urbanus ehakernae Burns, 2014
• Urbanus segnestami Burns, 2014
• Urbanus viterboana (Ehrmann, 1907) – Mexico to Colombia, Ecuador
• Urbanus dubius Steinhauser, 1981 – Colombia
• Urbanus megalurus (Mabille, 1877)
• Urbanus tucuti (R. Williams, 1927)

Former species

Transferred to Cecropterus:

• Urbanus dorantes (Stoll, 1790)
• Urbanus obscurus (Hewitson, 1867)
• Urbanus evenus (Ménétriés, 1855)
• Urbanus virescens (Mabille, 1877)
• Urbanus trebia (Möschler, 1879)
• Urbanus carmelita (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
• Urbanus reductus (N. Riley, 1919)
• Urbanus doryssus (Swainson, 1831)
• Urbanus albimargo (Mabille, 1875)

Transferred to Spicauda:

• Urbanus teleus (Hübner, 1821)
• Urbanus tanna Evans, 1952
• Urbanus ambiguus de Jong, 1983
• Urbanus cindra Evans, 1952
• Urbanus zagorus (Plötz, 1881)
• Urbanus simplicius (Stoll, 1790)
• Urbanus procne (Plötz, 1881)

Transferred to Telegonus

• Urbanus chalco (Hübner, 1823)

References

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