# Erynnini

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The **Erynnini** are a [tribe](/source/Tribe_(biology)) in the [skipper butterfly](/source/Skipper_butterfly) [subfamily](/source/Subfamily) [Pyrginae](/source/Pyrginae). They are a moderately diverse but quite [plesiomorphic](/source/Plesiomorphic) and inconspicuous group, and except for the [Holarctic](/source/Holarctic) species of the [type genus](/source/Type_genus) *[Erynnis](/source/Erynnis)* occur only in the [Neotropics](/source/Neotropics).[1]

Formerly, when only four tribes of Pyrginae were recognized, they were included in the [Pyrgini](/source/Pyrgini), which at that time contained a massive number of [genera](/source/Genera). But the Pyrginae have since been reorganized to make them and their tribes [monophyletic](/source/Monophyletic), leading most modern authors to treat the Erynnini as distinct tribe. However, the old circumscription of the Pyrgini was by and large just as correct from a [phylogenetic](/source/Phylogenetic) perspective.[1]

The tribe of the Pyrgini *[sensu](/source/Sensu) lato* most closely related to the Pyrgini *sensu stricto* are the strikingly different [Achlyodidini](/source/Achlyodidini). As many consider it desirable to treat this lineage as a distinct tribe, the Erynnini naturally need to be considered distinct too.[1]

## Genera

The [genera](/source/Genera) are listed here in the presumed [phylogenetic](/source/Phylogenetic) sequence:[1][2]

**Subtribe Clitina****Subtribe Erynnina**

- *[Anastrus](/source/Anastrus)*
- *[Chiomara](/source/Chiomara_(butterfly))*
- *[Sostrata](/source/Sostrata)*
- *[Potamanaxas](/source/Potamanaxas)*
- *[Gorgythion](/source/Gorgythion_(butterfly))*
- *[Anaxas](/source/Anaxas)*
- *[Chiothion](/source/Chiothion)*
- *[Crenda](/source/Crenda)*
- *[Echelatus](/source/Echelatus)*
- *[Festivia](/source/Festivia)*
- *[Hoodus](/source/Hoodus)*
- *[Tolius](/source/Tolius)*

**Unplaced taxa**

- *[Grais](/source/Grais_(butterfly))* – hermit skipper
- *[Erynnis](/source/Erynnis)* – duskywings
- *[Gesta](/source/Gesta_(butterfly))*
- *[Mylon](/source/Mylon)*
- *[Ebrietas](/source/Ebrietas)*
- *[Timochares](/source/Timochares)*
- *[Cycloglypha](/source/Cycloglypha)*
- *[Ephyriades](/source/Ephyriades)* Hübner, [1819]
- *[Tosta](/source/Tosta)*
- *[Theagenes](/source/Theagenes_(butterfly))*
- *[Helias](/source/Helias)*
- *[Camptopleura](/source/Camptopleura)*

## Footnotes

1. Brower (2009)

1. Zicha, Ondrej. ["BioLib: Biological library"](https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1457289/). *www.biolib.cz*. Retrieved 2023-01-13.

## References

- (2009): [Tree of Life Web Project](/source/Tree_of_Life_Web_Project) – [Erynnini](http://tolweb.org/Erynnini/95262). Version of 2009-JUN-14. Retrieved 2009-DEC-26.

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