Genus
Erynnis (Duskywings)
Erynnis propertius. Photo: (c) Rich Hoyer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Erynnis is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the duskywings. Erynnis is found in the Neotropical ecozone and across the Palearctic but the highest species diversity is in the Nearctic.