Proteides mercurius

Proteides mercurius, the mercurial skipper, is a species of dicot skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, North America, and South America.^[1][2][3]

Proteides mercurius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Proteides
Species:	P. mercurius
Binomial name
Proteides mercurius (Fabricius, 1787)

The MONA or Hodges number for Proteides mercurius is 3868.^[4]

Subspecies

These five subspecies belong to the species Proteides mercurius:

• Proteides mercurius angasi Godman & Salvin, 1886
• Proteides mercurius mercurius (Fabricius, 1787)
• Proteides mercurius sanantonio (Lucas, 1857)
• Proteides mercurius sanchesi Bell & Comstock, 1948
• Proteides mercurius vincenti Bell & Comstock, 1948