Pyrginae

Los pirginos (Pyrginae) son una subfamilia de lepidópteros ditrisios de la familia Hesperiidae. Conócense 130 xéneros y unes 1.150 especies, de distribución cosmopolita, pero de les cuales unes 750 son neotropicales. Inclúi les especies de la d'antiguo considerada subfamilia Pyrrhopyginae.   Pyrginae, UK butterflies.

Les ales delanteres de los machos presenten de cutiu una plega costal qu'alluga les androconias. Posense coles ales estendíes, frecuentemente nel viesu de les fueyes. L'ala posterior tien una forma arrondada o trapezoidal. Les canesbes aliméntense de dicotiledónees.

 Tribus 
 Achylodidini - Carcharodini - Celaenorrhinini - Erynnini - Pyrgini - Pyrrhopygini - Tagiadini

 Referencies 

 Bibliografía 
 Ackery, P., R. de Jong and R. I. Vane-Wright, (1999) The Butterflies: Hedyloidea, Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea. in Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology 4(35):263-300 (ed. N. P. Kristensen). Berlin: de Gruyter.
 Austin, G.T., G.T., 2008: Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: A new genus and species of Pyrginae. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 62 (1): 36-39.
 Bell, E.L., Y.L., 1956: Descriptions of some new species of neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). American Museum novitates 1778: 1-13. Full article: .
 Devyatkin, A.L., A.L., 2001: Hesperiidae of Vietnam, 9. Three new species and one new subspecies from the subfamily Pyrginae (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Atalanta 32 (3/4): 403-410.
 Lames, Gerardo, 2004, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist Part 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea
 Miller, L.D., L.D., 1971: Descriptions of new species and notes on other Hesperiidae of Africa. Bull. Allyn Museum 2: 1-17. Full article: 
 Murayama, K. & J. Uehara, 2008: Two new species and one new subspecies of Pyrginae (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) from Sumatra and Laos. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 59(4): 285-290. Abstract and full article: .
 Steinhauser, S.R., S.R., 1989: Taxonomic notes and descriptions of new taxa in the neotropical Hesperiidae. Part I. Pyrginae.Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 127: 1-70. Full article: .
 Warren, A.D. ; J.R. Ogawa & A.V.Z. Brower, 2008: Phylogenetic relationships of subfamilies and circumscription of tribes in the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea). Cladistics 24: 642-676.

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