''Mnestheus'' is a genus of
skippers in the family
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilion ...
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Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Mnestheus'':
* ''
Mnestheus damma
Mnestheus () is a character from Roman mythology, found in Virgil's ''Aeneid''. He is described by Virgil as the ancestral hero of the Memmii and "Of the house of Assaracus". One of a handful of vaguely defined lieutenants under Aeneas, he appea ...
''
(Evans, 1955)
* ''
Mnestheus ittona
Mnestheus () is a character from Roman mythology, found in Virgil's ''Aeneid''. He is described by Virgil as the ancestral hero of the Memmii and "Of the house of Assaracus". One of a handful of vaguely defined lieutenants under Aeneas, he appea ...
''
(Butler, 1870)
* ''
Mnestheus servilius
Mnestheus () is a character from Roman mythology, found in Virgil's ''Aeneid''. He is described by Virgil as the ancestral hero of the Memmii and "Of the house of Assaracus". One of a handful of vaguely defined lieutenants under Aeneas, he appea ...
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(Möschler, 1882)
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiinae
Hesperiidae genera
Taxa named by Frederick DuCane Godman
Taxa described in 1901
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