Cyclopides

Cyclopides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Heteropterinae
Genus: Cyclopides
Hübner, 1819 [1]
Type species
Papilio steropes
Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775

Cyclopides is a genus of skippers. It is mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes book, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

References

  1. Francis Hemming (1967). "Cyclopides Hübner, 1819". Butterflies and Moths of the World: Generic Names and their Type-species. Natural History Museum.

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