Tribe

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

Pyrgus ruralis. Photo: (c) Donna Pomeroy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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.

— Wikipedia

Subtaxa

Where in Humboldt



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