''Mnestheus'' is a genus of
skippers
Skipper or skippers may refer to:
Rank
* Skipper (boating), a person who has command of a vessel
* Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve. Also informal for an officer of sergeant rank in British policing
* Th ...
in the family
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...
.
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 ...
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(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 appears t ...
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(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
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