Taxonavigation

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Pyrrhopyginae
Tribus: Passovini
Genus: Passova
Species: P. ganymedes – P. gazera – P. gellias – P. glacia – P. greta – P. nigrocephala – P. passova – P. polemon – P. vilna

Name

Passova Evans, 1951.

Typus: Pyrrhopyge passova Hewitson, [1866].

References

• Bell, E.L. 1931. Studies in the Pyrrhopyginae, With Descriptions of Several New Species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 39(3): 417–480, pls. 34–39. Reference page. 

• Biezanko, C.M. & Mielke, O.H.H. 1973. Contribution to the faunistic study of the American Hesperiidae IV. species of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil with taxonomic notes and descriptions of new species and subspecies (Lepidoptera). Acta Biológica Paranaense 2: 51–102. Reference page. 

• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 

• Evans, W.H. 1951–55. A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidae in the British Museum. Pt.1 (1951): x+92pp, pls.1–9; Pt.2 (1952): v.+178pp, pls.10–25; Pt.3 (1953): v+246pp, pls.26–53; Pt.4 (1955): v+499pp, pls. 54–88. Reference page. 

• Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page. 

• Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page. 

• Zhang, J., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Brockmann, E. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Genomes reveal drastic and recurrent phenotypic divergence in firetip skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae: Pyrrhopyginae). Proc. R. Soc. B 286: 20190609. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0609. Appendix. Reference page.