Tribe

Pyrgini (Checkered-skippers, white-skippers, and allies)

Burnsius communis. Photo: (c) Kent C. Jensen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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The Pyrgini are a tribe in the skipper butterfly subfamily Pyrginae. Formerly, when only four tribes of Pyrginae were recognized, the Pyrgini contained the largest number of genera among these. But this overly wide delimitation has since turned out to be paraphyletic.

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
  - Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
    - Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
      - Class: Insecta (Insects)
        Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
        Order: Lepidoptera (Butterflies and moths)
        Superfamily: Papilionoidea (Butterflies)
        Family: Hesperiidae (Skippers)
        Subfamily: Pyrginae (Spread-wing skippers)
        Tribe: Pyrgini (Checkered-skippers, white-skippers, and allies)
        Genus: Pyrgus (Grizzled skippers) (1)
        Genus: Burnsius (New world checkered-skippers) (1)

Subtaxa

Genus: Pyrgus (Grizzled skippers)

Genus: Burnsius (New world checkered-skippers)

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