Burnsius

Burnsius
Orcus checkered skipper, Burnsius orcus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Pyrginae
Tribe:	Pyrgini
Genus:	Burnsius Grishin, 2019

Burnsius is a genus of New World checkered-skippers in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. The genus was erected by Nick V. Grishin in 2019. There are about 12 described species in Burnsius.

As a result of a 2019 study of the genomes of 250 representative species of skippers, the genera Burnsius was created to contain 12 related species formerly in the genus Pyrgus.

Species

These 12 species belong to the genus Burnsius:

• Burnsius adepta (Plötz, 1884) (Central American checkered-skipper)
• Burnsius albescens (Plötz, 1884) (white checkered-skipper)
• Burnsius brenda (Evans, 1942) (Brenda checkered-skipper)
• Burnsius chloe (Evans, 1942) (Chloe checkered-skipper)
• Burnsius communis (Grote, 1872) (common checkered skipper)
• Burnsius crisia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865) (Antillean checkered-skipper)
• Burnsius notatus (Blanchard, 1852)
• Burnsius oileus (Linnaeus, 1767) (tropical checkered skipper)
• Burnsius orcus (Stoll, 1780) (orcus checkered-skipper)
• Burnsius orcynoides (Giacomelli, 1928)
• Burnsius philetas (Edwards, 1881) (desert checkered-skipper)
• Burnsius titicaca (Reverdin, 1921) (Peruvian checkered-skipper)

Further reading

• Li, Wenlin; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Zhang, Jing; et al. (2019). "Appendix to Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Pelham, Jonathan P. (2008). "A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature". The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 40. ISSN 0022-4324.
• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
• Warren, Andrew D.; Ogawa, Joshua R.; Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2009). "Revised classification of the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea) based on combined molecular and morphological data". Systematic Entomology. 34 (3): 467–523. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00463.x.