Heliopetes

Heliopetes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.^[2][3]

Heliopetes
Heliopetes arsalte, veined white-skipper
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Pyrginae
Tribe:	Pyrgini
Genus:	Heliopetes Billberg, 1820[1]
Subgenera
Heliopetes Billberg, 1820 Heliopyrgus Leucoscirtes
Synonyms
Leucoscirtes Scudder, 1872

Species

These species belong to the genus Heliopetes:^[4]

Heliopetes alana (Reakirt, 1868) (alana white-skipper)

Heliopetes americanus (Blanchard, 1852)

Heliopetes arsalte (Linnaeus, 1758) (veined white-skipper)

Heliopetes chimbo Evans, 1953

Heliopetes domicella (Erichson, 1849) (Erichson's white-skipper)

Heliopetes ericetorum (Boisduval, 1852) (northern white-skipper)

Heliopetes laviana (Hewitson, 1868) (laviana white-skipper)

Heliopetes leucola (Hewitson, 1868)

Heliopetes libra Evans, 1944

Heliopetes macaira (Reakirt, 1867) (Turk's-cap white-skipper)

Heliopetes marginata Hayward, 1940

Heliopetes nivella (Mabille, 1883)

Heliopetes ochroleuca J. Zikán, 1938

Heliopetes omrina (A. Butler, 1870) (stained white-skipper)

Heliopetes orbigera (Mabille, 1888)

Heliopetes petrus (Hübner, [1819])

Heliopetes purgia Schaus, 1902

Heliopetes sublinea Schaus, 1902 (east-mexican white-skipper)