Urbanus (butterfly) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Urbanus (butterfly)
Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Eudaminae
Genus:	Urbanus Hübner, [1807]
Synonyms
Goniurus Hübner, [1819] Eudamus Swainson, 1831 Lyroptera Plötz, 1881

Urbanus is a genus of skipper butterflies erected by Jacob Hübner in 1807. They belong to the subfamily Eudaminae, which was long included with the spread-winged skippers (Pyrginae) as a tribe. They are found from the southern United States to South America.

Some smaller genera have been merged with Urbanus. One of these, now a junior synonym, is Eudamus, the type genus of the Eudaminae. But in the wide circumscription listed here, Urbanus is apparently not monophyletic, and thus some of the formerly independent genera are likely valid.

Species

Esmeralda longtail (Urbanus esmeraldus), Costa Rica

Esmeralda longtail (Urbanus esmeraldus), Costa Rica

The species in this genus are:

Urbanus and related genera depicted in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World

• Urbanus albimargo (Mabille, 1875) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil
  • U. albimargo albimargo – Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia
  • U. albimargo rica Evans, 1952 – Paraguay
  • U. albimargo takuta Evans, 1952 – Guyana
• Urbanus ambiguus de Jong, 1983 – Suriname
• Urbanus belli (Hayward, 1935) – Bell's longtail – Mexico to Bolivia to Argentina
• Urbanus carmelita (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
  • Urbanus carmelita carmelita – Brazil
  • Urbanus carmelita barra Evans, 1952 – Brazil (Bahia)
  • Urbanus carmelita trebia (Möschler, 1879) – Venezuela, Panama, Colombia
• Urbanus chalco (Hübner, 1823) – Chalco longtail – Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina
• Urbanus chales (Godman & Salvin, [1893]) – Mexico
• Urbanus cindra Evans, 1952 – Bolivia
• Urbanus dorantes (Stoll, [1790]) – Dorantes longtail, lilac-banded longtail
  • U. dorantes dorantes – south California, south Arizona, south New Mexico, south Texas, south Florida Central America, South America, Argentina, Antilles
  • U. dorantes dorantes – Texas, Mexico, Suriname, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela
  • U. dorantes santiago – (Lucas, 1857) Brazil, Jamaica, Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, Grenada
  • U. dorantes obscurus (Hewitson, 1867) – Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saba, Antigua, Grenada, Barbados
  • U. dorantes galapagensis (Williams, 1911) – Galapagos skipper – Galápagos Islands
  • U. dorantes calafia (Williams, 1926) – Mexico (Baja California)
  • U. dorantes cramptoni Comstock, 1944 – Antilles, Puerto Rico
• Urbanus doryssus (Swainson, 1831) – white-tailed longtail, white-tailed skipper – south Texas, Central America, South America, Argentina
  • Urbanus doryssus doryssus – Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras
  • Urbanus doryssus albicuspis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Colombia, Brazil (Santa Catarina, Rio de Janeiro)
• Urbanus dubius Steinhauser, 1981 – Colombia
• Urbanus elmina Evans, 1952 – Ecuador
• Urbanus esma Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Brazil (São Paulo)
• Urbanus esmeraldus (Butler, 1877) – esmeralda longtail – Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras to Brazil, Colombia
• Urbanus esta Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Brazil (São Paulo)
• Urbanus evenus (Ménétriés, 1855) – Brazil
• Urbanus evona Evans, 1952 – Mexico, Guatemala
• Urbanus huancavillcas (Williams, 1926) – Ecuador
• Urbanus longicaudus Austin, 1998 – Brazil (Rondônia)
• Urbanus magnus Steinhauser, 1981 – Ecuador
• Urbanus parvus Austin, 1998 Brazil (Rondônia)
• Urbanus procne (Plötz, 1880) – brown longtail – south Texas, Arizona, Central America, South America, Argentina, Brazil
• Urbanus prodicus Bell, 1956 – Mexico
• Urbanus pronta Evans, 1952 – pronta longtail – Mexico, Honduras
• Urbanus pronus Evans, 1952 – Central America, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
• Urbanus proteus (Linnaeus, 1758) – long-tailed skipper – south California, Arizona, Texas, Florida Central America, South America, Argentina
  • U. proteus proteus – Mexico
  • U. proteus domingo (Scudder, 1872) – Saba to Grenada, Haiti
• Urbanus reductus (Riley, 1919) – Brazil (Amazonas)
• Urbanus simplicius (Stoll, [1790]) – plain longtail – Texas, Central America, South America, Suriname, Brazil, Honduras, Bolivia
• Urbanus tanna Evans, 1952 – Tanna longtail – Mexico to Colombia
• Urbanus teleus (Hübner, 1821) – teleus longtail – Central America, south Arizona, south Texas South America, French Guiana, Brazil, Argentina
• Urbanus velinus (Plötz, 1880) – Brazil (Bahia), Guyana
• Urbanus villus Austin, 1998 – Brazil (Rondônia)
• Urbanus virescens (Mabille, 1877) – virescens longtail – French Guiana, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Peru
• Urbanus viridis Freeman, 1970 – Mexico
• Urbanus viterboana (Ehrmann, 1907) – viterboana longtail – Mexico to Colombia, Ecuador
• Urbanus zagorus (Plötz, 1880) – Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Argentina

See also

In Spanish: Urbanus (insecto) para niños