genus

Phocides

Phocides

Field notes

Phocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini, of which it is the namesake genus.

The distribution of the genus is primarily Neotropical, but a few species occur in the Nearctic.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided