# Firetips

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Tribe of butterflies

Firetips, firetail skippers Male Pyrrhopyge sergius specimen (left antenna missing) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Clade: Pancrustacea Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Hesperiidae Subfamily: Pyrrhopyginae Mabille, 1877

**Firetips** or **firetail skippers** are [skipper butterflies](/source/Skipper_butterflies) in the subfamily **Pyrrhopyginae** ([family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) Hesperiidae). The roughly 150 [species](/source/Species) are found only in the [Neotropics](/source/Neotropics), with the exception of one species which just reaches into the United States. Their common names refer to the red tuft at the end of the [abdomen](/source/Abdomen#Invertebrates) of many Pyrrhopyginae.[1]

## Tribes

Pyrrhopyginae contains the following tribes:[2][3]

- [Azonaxini](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Azonaxini&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Oxynetrini](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxynetrini&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Passovini](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Passovini&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Pyrrhopygini](/source/Pyrrhopygini)

- [Zoniini](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zoniini&action=edit&redlink=1)

## Footnotes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-brower07_1-0)** Brower (2007)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Warren, Andrew; Ogawa, Joshua; Brower, Andrew (2008). ["Phylogenetic relationships of subfamilies and circumscription of tribes in the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea)"](https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1096-0031.2008.00218.x). *[Cladistics](/source/Cladistics_(journal))*. **24** (5): 642–676. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00218.x](https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1096-0031.2008.00218.x).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Brockmann, Ernst; Grishin, Nick (2019). ["Genomes reveal drastic and recurrent phenotypic divergence in firetip skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae: Pyrrhopyginae)"](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545083). *[Proceedings of the Royal Society B](/source/Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society#Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society_B:_Biological_Sciences)*. **286** (1903). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1098/rspb.2019.0609](https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frspb.2019.0609). [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [6545083](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545083). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [31113329](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31113329).

## References

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Taxon identifiers Pyrrhopyginae Wikidata: Q3411414 Wikispecies: Pyrrhopyginae BioLib: 579895 CoL: 93MZP Insecta.pro: 23808 ITIS: 694117 NCBI: 328871

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