Cyclopides

Cyclopides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Heteropterinae
Genus:	Cyclopides Hübner, 1819 [1]
Type species
Papilio steropes Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775

Cyclopides is a genus of skippers. It is mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes book, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

External links

• http://www.sherlockholmes.com/
• Descriptions of one hundred new species of Hesperidae, Parts 1–2, by W. C. Hewitson (1867)

References

1. ^ Francis Hemming (1967). "Cyclopides Hübner, 1819". Butterflies and Moths of the World: Generic Names and their Type-species. Natural History Museum. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projects/butmoth/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=7696.0.