page_title: Pyrrhopyge
hierarchical_section_title: Pyrrhopyge
caption_attribution_description: Max Wilhelm Karl Draudt 1924 Family: Hesperiidae in Seitz, A. ed. Plate from Seitz, A. ed. ( 1924) Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 5: Abt. 5, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die Großschmetterlinge des amerikanischen Faunengebietes, The Macrolepidoptera of the world&#160;: a systematic account of all the known Macrolepidoptera: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region.Volume 5 part 5 text online read text See The Global Lepidoptera Names Index for valid names Plate 162 Pyrrhopyge phidias hyperici Hübner, 1823 Pyrrhopyge sergius sergius Hopffer, 1874 Pyrrhopyge aziza araethyrea Hewitson, 1870 Pyrrhopyge phidias garata Hewitson, 1866 Elbella scylla (Ménétriés, 1855) Pyrrhopyge creona H. Druce, 1874 zeleucus Fabricius, 1793 synonym for Pyrrhopyge phidias phidias(Linnaeus, 1758) Pyrrhopyge charybdis charybdis Westwood, 1852 Passova polemon (Hopffer, 1874) menecrates Mabille synonym for Elbella lamprus lamprus (Hopffer, 1874) lampros misspelling Elbella lamprus (Hopffer, 1874) Pyrrhopyge proculus proculus Hopffer, 1874 Gunayan rhacia (Hewitson, 1875) Elbella intersecta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) Elbella dulcinea (Plötz, 1879) fluminis Butler synonym for Elbella intersecta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) Pyrrhopyge infantilis H. Druce, 1908 Pyrrhopyge phidias(Linnaeus, 1758) Aspitha agenoria (Hewitson, 1876) Passova passova (Hewitson, 1866) Passova gellias Godman &amp; Salvin, 1893 Passova gazera (Hewitson, [1866]) Amysoria galgala (Hewitson, 1866) Pyrrhopyge phidias latifasciata A. Butler, 1873 Pyrrhopyge araxes Hewitson, 1867) Jonaspyge jonas(C. Felder &amp; R. Felder, 1859) Creonpyge creon Druce, 1874 Melanopyge maculosa (Hewitson, 1866) Melanopyge erythrosticta (Godman &amp; Salvin, 1879) Chalypyge zereda hygieia (C. Felder &amp; R. Felder, 1867) Jonaspyge aesculapus (Staudinger, 1876) Chalypyge zereda rufinucha (Godman &amp; Salvin, 1879) Chalypyge zereda (Hewitson, [1866]) Pyrrhopyge hadassa Hewitson, 1866 Pyrrhopyge telassa croceimargo Mabille &amp; Boullet, 1908 Pyrrhopyge amyclas (Cramer, 1779) Chalypyge chalybea (Scudder, 1872) Pyrrhopyge telassa telassa Hewitson, 1866 hades Mabille, 1903 synonym for Pyrrhopyge phylleia phylleia Hewitson, 1874 Pyrrhopyge phylleia phylleia Hewitson, 1874 Pyrrhopyge telassa phaeax Hopffer, 1874 Pyrrhopyge sergius josephina Draudt, 1921 Mysarbia sejanus Hopffer, 1874 Pyrrhopyge kelita Hewitson, [1869] Amenis pionia Hewitson, 1857 thasus synonym for Mysarbia sejanus (Hopffer, 1874) Mysoria affinis(Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) Mysoria barcastus venezuelae (Scudder, 1872)
context_page_description: Pyrrhopyge is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae.
  This genus comprises very numerous, partly extremely similar species which are difficult to separate and perhaps neither are separable as distinct species. Nearly all are large, strong animals with black body and wings, often with a bronze-green or deep blue lustre, often spotted red on the head and abdomen. On the broad, mostly pointed forewings the discoidal runs very obliquely, the upper median vein rising somewhat behind the middle of the cell. On the hindwing the lower radial and upper median vein rise unpetioled, the middle radial being absent. The hind tibiae are strongly haired outside. The Pyrrhopyge, according to statements by Adalbert Seitz, are conspicuous animals owing to their almost invariably one-coloured black colouring and the mostly glaring-red ends of their bodies. When they fly past swiftly, these red places are difficult to notice for the human eye, but the resting insect makes the impression as if its body were bleeding in front and behind.
context_section_description: Pyrrhopyge is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae.
  This genus comprises very numerous, partly extremely similar species which are difficult to separate and perhaps neither are separable as distinct species. Nearly all are large, strong animals with black body and wings, often with a bronze-green or deep blue lustre, often spotted red on the head and abdomen. On the broad, mostly pointed forewings the discoidal runs very obliquely, the upper median vein rising somewhat behind the middle of the cell. On the hindwing the lower radial and upper median vein rise unpetioled, the middle radial being absent. The hind tibiae are strongly haired outside. The Pyrrhopyge, according to statements by Adalbert Seitz, are conspicuous animals owing to their almost invariably one-coloured black colouring and the mostly glaring-red ends of their bodies. When they fly past swiftly, these red places are difficult to notice for the human eye, but the resting insect makes the impression as if its body were bleeding in front and behind. As the flight is impetuously swift, the animal escaping its enemies scarcely needs any protection, whereas on the topmost branches of bushes of 1 or 2 metres height, which are chosen by the males as their point of observation, one of the most dangerous enemies of the tropical butterflies is lying in ambush, the praying-cricket which even catches butterflies of the size of strong Papilio with a sure dart and is able to devour several large specimens a day. In the waiting attitude taken up by the Pyrrhopyge on the tip of the twig, the forewings are half erected, the hindwings somewhat more lowered; a position sometimes met with in European Adopaea or Pamphila, whereas other Pyrrhopyginae, such as the blue-striped Jemadia, the Mimoniades, Myscelus etc. keep their wings spread out when at rest, about like Thanaos tages. The larvae of Pyrrhopyge, as far as we know, are thinly haired on the body, shaggily on the head, brown or reddish with yellow, zebra-like stripes. They live on different trees, so on guava pear-trees (Psidium pyriferum and pomiferum), in leaf-cases. The pupae are haired, too. The imagines fly along the roads and skirts of woods in a raving, somewhat skipping flight and are fond of drinking from wet places on the roads. The Jemadia and Mimoniades love the umbels of blossoming bushes, where they are met with in the company of similarly coloured hesperids from other groups, such as Phocides and Pyrrhopygopsis.
caption: Pyrrhopyge in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
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