Heliopetes
Introduction '''''Heliopetes''''' is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.
Species These species belong to the genus ''Heliopetes'':: ''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)
References * , 1937: New genera and species of Neotropical Hesperiidae with notes on some others (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). ''American Museum Novitates'' '''914''': 1-17.Full article: . *  1944: An analysis of the genus ''Heliopetes'' Billberg (Lepidoptera-Hesperiidae) with genitalia drawings. ''Entomol''., London, '''77''': 179-185. * , 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea.
External links * Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database* ''Heliopetes'' at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''