The butterflies of the family Hesperiidae, commonly known as skippers, constitute a group of diurnal lepidopterans although some species are known to fly at dusk, dawn and night (DeVries, 1983; Austin, 2008). In Costa Rica it is one of the most diverse families, alongside Nymphalidae (Vega, 2012), with approximately 486 species (Chacón & Montero, 2007). Morphologically, they can be distinguished by a number of specific features: a wingspan of less than 55 mm, a robust body compared with the wings, small and well-spaced eyes, thorax usually larger than the abdomen, and particularly the presence of a hook at the distal end of the antenna (Murillo-Hiller, 2008).

The first published list of skippers for Costa Rica was that by Godman & Salvin (1887-1901) with 166 species, followed by Fulton (1966) who reported 45 species, and more recently DeVries (1983) with 350 species. From the Central Valley of Costa Rica Vega & Gloor (2001) reported 65 species from El Rodeo, Vega (2006) 42 species from Los Cerros de Escazú, Sánchez, Duran & Vega (2008) 36 species from La Carpintera, Vega (2012) 35 species from El Rodeo and finally Nishida, Nakamura, & Morales (2009) reported 65 species from the same site as the present study.

Butterflies and skippers are considered good indicators of diversity of other insect groups such as Hymenoptera, as well as other taxa (Kerr, Sugar, & Packer, 2000). Also noteworthy is the importance of butterflies as bioindicators in showing the conditions and changes that occur in a given habitat, due to their high sensitivity and close relationship with plants (Pearson, 1994).

Species lists of skippers are generally absent from butterflies studies in Costa Rica. Additionally, the only research about skippers carried out in the Reserva Ecológica Leonelo Oviedo was done with an opportunistic methodology (Nishida et al., 2009). Therefore, this study presents an assessment of the current state, trough a systematic sampling of the Hesperiidae of the reserve. Also, seasonality, abundance and natural history traits are presented.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

The study site (Fig. 1a and Fig. 1b) is the Reserva Ecológica Leonelo Oviedo (RELO) on the Campus of the University of Costa Rica, San Pedro, San José (09°56’15’’ N & 84°03’00’’ W). It consists of a 2 ha. urban reserve immersed in the city and its biological connectivity with others natural areas is limited to the poor vegetation along the Los Negritos stream. The area used to be a shaded coffee plantation, which subsequently was cut to begin a forest regeneration project in 1965 (DiStéfano, Nielsen, Hoomans, & Fournier, 1996). The RELO has an area of 2 ha classified as Premontane Moist Forest. The average annual rainfall is between 2 000 and 4 000 mm and the temperature oscillates between 17 and 24 °C (Bolaños, Watson, & Tosi, 2005). Its altitude is 1 200 m and is crossed by two creeks, Los Negritos and Pacayas and because of that it remains humid areas even during the dry season.

An adaptation of the transect sampling of Pollard (1997) was carried out during two years, from March 24th, 2004 to March 31st, 2006. Samples were taken with a butterfly net by walking through an existing trail of 270 m (Fig. 2) and collecting all individuals that flew through it, within 5 m of the trail. The complete transect was done, from 08:00 to 12:00, choosing a sunny day each month. During the sampling day the transect was done completely 12 times. From the total sampling period, only four months (July 2004, December 2004, March 2005 and May 2005) were not sampled due to administrative or logistical inconveniences. For a summary of the results the samples were summed in relation to dry (December to April) and wet season (May to November), with a total of three dry and two wet seasons sampled.

In addition to the transect sampling, from April of 2006 to January 2017 one of the authors continued collecting specimens of species which were not found in the transect methodology. With this we intend to present in this work a significant majority of the species richness of skippers in the study site. Also, some larvae were collected and reared in plastic bags with its host plant, to obtain additional information about early stages and biology of some species. Host plant identifications were done with the help of a botanist from the Escuela de Biología of the Universidad de Costa Rica.

The butterflies were mounted, pinned for identification and deposited in the Museo de Zoología of the Escuela de Biología of the Universidad de Costa Rica. Identifications were done by comparing the specimens with the ones in the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (InBio) and with the help of a specialist from McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity. For identifying cryptic species, male genitalia dissections were done.

For the cumulative number of species and the Jacknife estimate of species abundance for 21 months, EstimateS 9.1.0 (Colwell & Elsensohn, 2014) was used, estimating 95 % boundaries with 100 randomizations when possible for the cumulative number of species. With the Jacknife estimate 95 % confidence limits were calculated. For the summary of the data, the months were analyzed according to dry and wet season. For a comparison of richness and abundance we did a g-test to evaluate if there were differences between seasons. With the use of the R package vegan (Oksanen et al., 2017) a hierarchical cluster analysis was done using the Jaccard index with the Ward’s minimum variance agglomerative method. With R package pvclust (Susuki & Shimodaira, 2015) the uncertainty of the clusters was achieved based on a bootstrap with 10 000 iterations.

Male genitalia dissections were treated with 10 % KOH at boiling point, and examined with a Nikon binocular stereoscope model C-DS. The clean genitalia were then stored in vials with 75 % alcohol. Genitalia drawings were done with the help of photographs taken with a binocular stereoscope with a LEICA EZ4HD camera. Adult photographs were taken with a Cannon EOS 70D camera with a macro photography lens and plates were mounted with Adobe Photoshop.

RESULTS

Taxonomy: Skipper butterflies are one of the less studied day-flying Lepidoptera in the Neotropics, which is probably due to their enormous diversity, small size, mostly brown coloration, and numerous cryptic species which can only be distinguished by a few small details. Also, many genera require the examination of genitalia to obtain an accurate identification. That is the case of the genus Mnasitheus which is the only one that we were not able to identify to species level for this study. Thus, the statistical analysis was done considering two morpho species differentiated by size. Another case of difficult species are those of Papias where two species were found and were only distinguishable by genitalia (P. dictys Fig. 3a and P. subcostulata Fig. 3b). Small individuals of Bolla can be confused with large Staphylus, and for this reason we also illustrated the male genitalia of Bolla brennus (Fig. 3c) and Staphylus ascalaphus (Fig. 3d). Finally, the male genitalia of Buzyges rolla (Fig. 3e) have been included because of its similarity to Poanes zabulon (Fig. 3: f and g shows details of its juxta and aedeagus with everted vesica, respectively).

For general species identification of Hesperiidae of the reserve, we have included an identification guide. Individuals of all the species are shown dorsally; when needed, the ventral side was also included. When species are sexually dimorphic, both sexes are illustrated with exception of Buzyges rolla for which we had no females and Dyscophellus p. phraxanor for which we had no males. Plates are arranged as follows: plate 1, Eudaminae; plate 2, Pyrginae; and plates 3-7, Hesperiinae.

Species richness and abundance: A total of 435 Hesperiidae specimens of 58 species were collected from March 2004 to January 2017 (Table 1). From those, 423 specimens of 49 species were collected as part of the 2 years transect sampling. The species collected belong to 46 genera and three subfamilies: Eudaminae with five genera and nine species, Pyrginae with eight genera and nine species, and Hesperiinae with 33 genera and 40 species. The species with an asterisk * indicate those not included in the sampling design and statistical analysis. The taxonomic arrangement follows Warren, Ogawa, & Browner (2008) with the modifications of Warren, Ogawa & Browner (2009) and Austin & Warren (2009).

From the 21 sampling months (9 dry and 12 rainy) over the two years a species-accumulation curve was calculated in order to visualize the probabilities of catching new species in the future and to evaluate the success of the sampling design (Fig. 4). From these data, and according to a Jacknife estimate of species abundance, a total of 58.52 (51.95-65.10 95 % interval) species are expected to inhabit the reserve, which is very close to the 59 total species found after 13 years of collecting. When comparing species richness (Fig. 5a) and abundance (Fig. 5b) between dry and wet season, the analysis shows more species (G = 6.92, d.f. = 2, P = 0.031) and greater abundance (G = 6.10, df = 2, P = 0.047) during the dry season. In other words, there are more individuals and more species that are common during the dry months. However, during the rainy season it is normal to find either a low or high number of different species, but in low abundance. For instance, there were more rainy months when low richness and abundance were observed; only one rainy month had more than sixteen species with almost forty individuals. In contrast, four dry season months had more that sixteen species and five of them with almost forty individuals.

The cluster analysis shows that both rainy seasons are grouped in a significant way (P = 0.05). The dry seasons are also grouped significantly (P = 0.05); however dry periods 1 and 3 are not (P = 0.23) (Fig. 6).

Natural history: During the 13 years collecting period, there were three species that were never seen as adults in their habitat. Instead, they were obtained by collecting larvae from their host plants: Halotus rica on Guadua angustifolia (Poaceae), Thracides phidon and Talides sinois on Heliconia tortuosa (Heliconiaceae). Other species were captured in adult and larval stage: Astraptes alardus on Erythrina poeppigiana (Fabaceae), Atarnes sallei on Annona glabra (Annonaceae), Pythonides zera on Persea americana and Cinnamomun triplinerve (Lauraceae), Achlyodes pallida on Citrus spp. (Rutaceae), Synale cynaxa on Chamaedorea costaricana (Arecaceae), Panoquina evadnes on Dypsis lutescens (Arecaceae), Oxynthes corusca, Cynea cynea and Perichares lotus on Guadua angustifolia (Poaceae).

None of the skipper species found in the RELO was very abundant. Some species can be easily seen any time of the year when there is sunshine, for example Cynea cynea, Papias subcostulata, Heliopetes alana, Buzyges rolla, Synapte salenus, Astraptes anaphus, Saliana esperi and Bolla brennus. These species are often seen nectaring from flowers in the open areas such as the sides of creeks or light gaps produced by fallen trees. Among the most visited flower plants by the skippers in the reserve are Melanthera nivea (Asteraceae), Lantana urticifolia and Stachytarpheta mutabilis (Verbenaceae), and Alternanthera pubiflora (Amaranthaceae). 25 species occur throughout the year, 21 species are exclusive of the dry season and 12 of the wet season. For example, Callimormus juventus, Conga chydaea and Quinta cannae were caught only during the dry season, whereas Panoquina evadnes, Rhinthon osca and Staphylus ascalaphus were collected only during the rainy season.

DISCUSSION

In general terms, the skipper species of the reserve are not difficult to identify. The majority can be identified to species level when seen in the wild. A few need to be collected for hand examination (Perichares spp., Mucia zygia, Vacerra spp. Pompeius pompeius Polites v. vibex, Poanes zabulon, Buzyges rolla, Cymaenes odilia trebius and Cobalopsis nero), and only a few need to be killed for genitalic analysis (Papias dictys, Papias subcostulata, Mnasitheus spp., Bolla brennus and Staphylus ascalaphus).

Mnasitheus were difficult to identify. After genitalic examination there seem to be three or four species in the RELO, all of them are similar in size and color pattern. The genitalia dissected from the individuals collected do not resemble the illustrations of Godman & Salvin (1887-1901) for Mnasitheus cephoides, M. chrysophrys or M. simplicissima. Also, the illustration provided by Hayward (1941) in the description of Mnasitheus cephoides show only some parts of the male genitalia because he did not draw the whole genitalia. Finally, Mnasitheus nitra genitalia were illustrated from northern Guatemala (Austin, 1997), but do not resemble the ones obtained from this study. Due to the small number of genitalia illustrations available in the literature, it is important to include them in future publications of Hesperiidae. In the case of the RELO, more studies must be conducted in order to determine if there are new Mnasitheus species and genitalia illustrations will help to advance studies of Hesperiidae since species identifications will be more accessible.

It is remarkable that in the RELO, the species richness is higher than expected when compared with similar studies. For instance Vega & Gloor (2001) and Vega (2012) reported 65 species in one collecting year in El Rodeo; which is a protected, well conserved area of the same life zone but, of approximately 2 100 ha. It was expected that El Rodeo would have many more species since Shreeve & Mason (1980) suggest that the size of the forest area is positively related to the number of species. Nonetheless, as has been shown in other studies, small urban vegetation patches can sometimes hold more diversity than larger, better conserved forests (Owen, 1971). The similarity of the species richness among these two areas probably reflects collecting effort since one might expect more species in El Rodeo but, our study was conducted for more years and focused only on Hesperiidae. The species list of Vega & Gloor, (2001) and Vega (2012) was based on only two years of collecting and included all butterfly families.

More comparable is the study by Nishida et al. (2009). They registered 65 skipper species for the RELO, the same study site as was used in our research. If eight species which were identified only to genus are removed from their list there are only 57 species, a very similar number to what we report here. They obtained 23 species (40 % of their total) that we did not record while we recorded 25 species (42 % of our total) that they did not record. As result, 34 (59 %) species are reported by the two studies. Nishida et al. (2009) obtained their data from 1997 to 2007 and included data from specimens collected by entomology students of the University of Costa Rica, while our study was conducted for 13 years, from 2004 to 2017, and only included specimens collected by the authors.

A possible explanation for the difference in the species composition between these two studies, is that close to the 40 % of the skipper species of the RELO are actually non-resident in the area. These 23-25 species come to the reserve as part of a population from a larger area and they move across the vegetation along the rivers or just fly from one forest patch to another. Something similar has been shown by Kronforst & Fleming (2001) in the case of Heliconius charitonia (Nymphalidae) where there is gene flow between separate populations, demonstrating that individuals can actually move through cities.

It is possible that Anthopus, Epictetus, Poanes inimica, Zenis jebus, Noctuana lactifera and Autochton vectilucis reported by Nishida et al. (2009), as well as Polythrix mexicanus, Phanus marshalli, Achlyodes busirus, Lychnuchoides saptine and Dion gemmatus, do not actually have a population in the reserve, but instead were caught as they were passing from one side of the city to another, especially since Hesperiidae is a group known for fast and powerful flight (Emmel & Leck, 1970; Scoble, 1992; Murillo-Hiller, 2008). The species-accumulation curve presented in this work (Fig. 4) is evidence that no more than 60 species of skippers are expected to be found in the RELO, as is also supported by our jackknife estimate.

Because the RELO is embedded in an urban matrix, the dispersal of certain organisms may coincide with that proposed in the island equilibrium model proposed by MacArthur & Wilson (1967), where the number of species of an island is in a dynamic equilibrium between immigration and extinction. Moreover, the connectivity of the RELO with other green areas is maintained through the Negritos Creek, increasing the effective area of the forest (Di Stefano et al., 1996). That is to say, the Negritos Creek offers connectivity with nearby wooded areas by acting as a narrow biological corridor (Nishida et al., 2009). This could allow for the migration of some species that are not habitual residents of RELO, thus forming a population made up of local species as well as external species. Because of this, the two ha. of protected forest in the RELO is more comparable to a larger conserved forest than to an urban reserve. Urban reserves are characterized by high abundance of some species and a low quantity of host specialist species (Ramírez-Restrepo & MacGregor-Fors, 2017), opposite to the RELO where there are many species and none of them abundant.

Conditions such as high levels of relative humidity and a variety of flowering plants that serve as a food resources for butterflies (Moyers-Arévalo & Cano-Santana, 2009) could facilitate the return of rare species during some years. During the dry season precipitation levels are low, so that mechanical damage to butterflies is reduced (Emmel & Leck, 1970). Plant density varies markedly between seasons (Nishida et al., 2009), being most exuberant during the wet season. This would benefit the displacement of skippers, resulting in greater connectivity and thus a greater flow of species, which explains the increase of rare species in the rainy season. With respect to the mechanical damage that rain can cause to the butterflies, it can be argued that the extra vegetation cover provides shelter thereby mitigating the adverse effects of rain.

The above hypothesis is also supported by the fact that abundance and richness of skippers from the dry season and the rainy season are positively correlated (Fig. 6). These populations seem to be intermittent, probably because their small population size, which makes them vulnerable to local extinctions due to stochastic processes (Lande, 1988).

According to DeVries (1987), the RELO is located in an ecotone between the Guanacaste dry forest and the wetter mid-elevation forests of Talamanca. There is virtually no rain from December to April and intense rains from May to November (Coen, 1983; DeVries, 1987; Bolaños et al., 2005). Rainfall is a variable which directly affects butterfly populations (Emmel & Leck, 1970; DeVries, 1987; Torres, Osorio-Beristain, Mariano, & Legal, 2009), where rain season seems to negatively affect the abundance but not the species richness; on the other hand, the dry season propitiates the increasing of abundance and richness of Hesperiidae in the RELO as can be seen in Fig. 5. Our data suggest that during the dry months there are more probabilities of observing more individuals of more species than during the rainy months. This contradicts the observations of DeVries (1983, 1987) who states that, in general terms, butterfly diversity in the Costa Rican Pacific slope increases with rainfall. In a study conducted with 92 butterfly species in Panama, it has been found that butterfly abundance and diversity are affected differently by rainfall, according to habitat characteristics (Emmel & Leck, 1970). They found that in open areas abundance and diversity decreased during the dry season, but increased during the rainy season. On the other hand, diversity in forest areas increased in the dry season. The explanation for this is that during the dry season many species from open areas and clearings move to the forest to obtain protection in the cooler and more humid understory. The RELO is a habitat almost completely composed of tall trees with a well differentiated understory, while light gaps are rarely produced and are of small size. Long-term butterfly phenology studies (DeVries & Walla, 2001; Valtonen et al., 2013) have found that butterfly abundance and richness increase in the rainy season, and others (Emmel & Leck, 1970; Valtonen et al., 2013) have argued that low numbers of individuals and species collected during the rainy season might be due to fewer hours of activity during rainy days.

The exuberant vegetation in the rainy season could lead to the entry of species into the reserve that can only do so due to the increase in connectivity. This means that the composition of species entering the forest in the dry season shows differences with respect to the composition of species that enter during the wet season, because during the dry season the dispersal of some species may be limited. This could explain why the diversity of skippers observed in the different dry seasons is similar to one another, as seen in the cluster analysis (Fig. 6) and the same is true for the wet season. Throughout the year, variation in the occurrence of some species of butterflies may occur due to the way they respond to the seasonal variation of the environment (Scott & Epstein, 1987). This could also be linked to several vegetative factors, such as the availability of resources like flowers, host plants, refuges or specific behavior; as Dyscophellus p. phraxanor, Dyscophellus porcius and Thracides phidon that are infrequently collected as adults. D. p. phraxanor and D. porcius have only been collected at surrounding lights at night. It is known that some Costa Rican skippers fly at night, as is the case of Calaenorrhinus fritzgaertneri (DeVries, Schull, & Greig, 1987). According to Austin (2008) Dyscophellus is attracted to lights at night and is seldom collected during the day. For this reason there were very few specimens of D. p. phraxanor and D. porcius collected from the RELO. On the other hand, T. phidon have only been obtained by rearing larvae found on Heliconia tortuosa. A possible explanation for the absence of adults but regular appearance of larvae, might be that they fly in the canopy, as occurs in many neotropical skippers (Burns & Janzen, 2001).

Species lists of other forest fragments and gardens around Montes de Oca and San José are important for understanding the biodiversity in the city. Long-term comparisons between sites will be useful for directing conservation efforts. Hesperiidae, being one of the most diverse Lepidoptera families, is a good candidate for describing urban diversity since are taxonomically well known and are sensitive to human disturbances (Ramírez-Restrepo & MacGregor-Fors, 2017).

Ethical statement: authors declare that they all agree with this publication and made significant contributions; that there is no conflict of interest of any kind; and that we followed all pertinent ethical and legal procedures and requirements. All financial sources are fully and clearly stated in the acknowledgements section. A signed document has been filed in the journal archives.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank Paul Hanson for critically reviewing and important comments on the manuscript. Also, to Andy Warren for helping to identify many of the skippers species of this work and Carlos Morales for plants identification. Finally, to Eduardo Chacón for his help and important comments on the statistical analysis.

RESUMEN

Las mariposas hespéridas (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) de la Reserva Ecológica Leonelo Oviedo, San José, Costa Rica. Con aproximadamente 486 especies, Hesperiidae es una de las familias más diversas de mariposas de Costa Rica. A pesar de eso, en pocas listas de especies locales son incluidas. En este trabajo, presentamos información sobre la estacionalidad, abundancia e historia natural de los hespéridos de la Reserva Ecológica Leonelo Oviedo. Ésta reserva se encuentra dentro de una matriz urbanizada y por un período de dos años se realizaron muestreos mensuales a lo largo de un sendero de 270 m que la atraviesa. Las recolectas se llevaron a cabo desde las 08:00 hasta las 12:00, atrapando todos los individuos encontrados a cada lado del sendero a una distancia de hasta 5 m. Para representar mejor la riqueza de especies, se siguió recolectando individuos de manera aleatoria por más de diez años posteriores al muestreo inicial. Consecuentemente, estos individuos no fueron incluidos en el análisis estadístico realizado. Se tomaron fotografías de todas las especies obtenidas en total, para proporcionar una guía de identificación de especies. Ademas, para las especies crípticas se realizaron disecciones e ilustraciones de los genitales masculinos. Para el análisis de diversidad se utilizó el índice de Shannon con logaritmo en base dos y analizando los datos por separado de las estación lluviosa y seca. Para la comparación de riqueza y abundancia se realizó una prueba G y se obtuvo que hay mayor diversidad y abundancia durante la estación seca. Se utilizó el paquete vegan R para un análisis de conglomerados de Jaccard con un indice Ward de mínima varianza. Con el Paquete R pvclust la incertidumbre de los conglomerados se realizó con un bootstrap de 10 000 interacciones. 423 individuos de 49 especies fueron incluidas en el análisis estadístico, de un total de 435 individuos de 58 especies tratadas en este trabajo. Con el análisis de conglomerados fue posible determinar que la diversidad de Hesperiidae en las dos estaciones lluviosas analizadas se agrupan significativamente (P = 0.05). Lo mismo que sucede con las estaciones secas (P = 0.05). La Reserva presenta conectividad con otras áreas boscosas a través de una quebrada. Durante la estación lluviosa, el crecimiento vegetativo aumenta el paso de individuos lo que puede propiciar la llegada de nuevas especies que no necesariamente son residentes permanentes de la Reserva y establecerse en pequeñas poblaciones que incrementan la diversidad y abundancia temporalmente, Lo anterior, mas las variaciones estacionales en la disponibilidad de recursos explican la similitud de la composición de especies entre cada una de las estaciones.

Palabras clave: biodiversidad β; conservación; riqueza de especies; reserva biológica urbana; bioindicadores de calidad de hábitat.

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TABLE 1

Skippers species list found in the RELO and their seasonal occurrence

TABLE 1 (Continued)
Taxa	Dry Season	Wet Season
Taxa	Dry Season	Wet Season
EUDAMINAE
Astraptes Hübner, 1807
Astraptes alardus (Stoll, 1790)	1	5
Astraptes anaphus (Cramer, 1777)	5	6
Dyscophellus Godman & Salvin, 1893
*Dyscophellus porcius (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862)	-	3
*Dyscophellus phraxanor phraxanor (Hewitson, 1876)	-	1
Phanus Hübner, 1819
*Phanus marshalli (W.F. Kirby, 1880)	-	1
Polythrix Watson, 1893
*Polythrix mexicanus H.A. Freeman, 1969	-	1
Urbanus Hübner, 1807
Urbanus dorantes (Stoll, 1790)	-	2
Urbanus esta Evans, 1952	2	-
Urbanus teleus (Hübner, 1821)	7	-
PYRGINAE
Achlyodes Hübner, 1819
Achlyodes busirus (Cramer, 1779)	1	-
Achlyodes pallida (R. Felder, 1869)	2	-
Atarnes Gordman & Salvin, 1897
Atarnes sallei (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867)	1	-
Bolla Mabille, 1903
Bolla brennus (Godman & Salvin, 1896)	14	8
Heliopetes Billberg, 1820
Heliopetes alana (Reakirt, 1868)	10	-
Pyrgus Hübner, 1819
Pyrgus oileus (Linnaeus, 1767)	3	-
Pythonides Hübner, 1819
Pythonides zera (Butler, 1870)	1	-
Staphylus Godman & Salvin, 1896
Staphylus ascalaphus (Staudinger, 1876)	-	4
Xenophanes Godman & Salvin, 1895
Xenophanes tryxus (Stoll, 1780)	6	2
HESPERIINAE
Ancyloxypha Felder, 1863
*Ancyloxypha arene (W.H. Edwards, 1871)	1	-
Buzyges Godman,1900
Buzyges rolla (Mabille, 1883)	12	13
Callimormus Scudder, 1872
Callimormus juventus Scudder, 1872	8	-
Calpodes Hürber, 1819
Calpodes ethlius (Stoll, 1782)	1	1
Cobalopsis Godman, 1900
Cobalopsis nero (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)	5	2
Conga Evans, 1955
Conga chydaea (Butler, 1877)	6	-
Corticea Evans, 1955
Corticea lysias lysias (Plötz, 1883)	-	1
Cymaenes Scudder, 1872
Cymaenes odilia trebius (Mabile, 1891)	9	2
Cynea Evans, 1955
Cynea cynea (Hewitson, 1876)	31	28
Dion Godman, 1901
*Dion gemmatus (Burler, 1872)	1	-
Halotus Godman, 1900
Halotus rica (Bell, 1942)	-	4
Lychnuchoides Godman, 1901
Lychnuchoides saptine (Godman & Salvin, 1879)	-	1
Mnasitheus Godman, 1900
Mnasitheus sp.1	1	1
Mnasitheus sp.2	4	1
Mucia Godman, 1900
Mucia zygia (Plötz, 1886)	1	2
Naevolus Hemming, 1939, repl. name
Naevolus orius orius (Mabille, 1883)	2	1
Niconiades Hübner, 1821
Niconiades nikko (Hayward, 1948)	8	1
Oxynthes Godman, 1900
Oxynthes corusca (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)	5	1
Panoquina Hemming, 1934
Panoquina evadnes (Stoll, 1781)	-	2
Papias Godman 1900
Papias dictys Godman 1900	1	-
Papias subcostulata (Herrich Schäffer, 1870)	26	24
Perichares Scudder, 1872
Perichares deceptus (Butler & H. Druce, 1872)	-	1
Perichares lotus (Butler, 1870)	3	5
Perichares philetas adela (Hewitson, 1867)	1	-
Poanes Scudder, 1872
Poanes zabulon (Boisduval & Le Conte, [1837])	6	1
Polites Scudder, 1872
*Polites vibex vibex (Hübner, [1819])	1	-
Pompeius Evans, 1955
Pompeius pompeius (Latreille, [1824])	5	-
Quinta Evans, 1955
Quinta cannae (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)	3	-
Remella Hemming, 1939
Remella rita (Evans, 1955)	14	4
Rhinton Godman, 1900
Rhinthon osca (Plötz, 1882)	-	3
Saliana Evans, 1955
Saliana esperi Evans, 1955	10	7
Synale Mabille, 1904
Synale cynaxa (Hewitson, 1867)	3	7
Synapte Mabille, 1904
Synapte salenus (Mabille, 1883)	23	10
Talides Hübner, 1910
Talides sinois Hübner, [1819]	1	-
Thespieus Godman, 1900
*Thespieus dalman (Latreille, [1824])	1	-
Thespieus macareus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)	3	2
Thracides Hübner, 1819
*Thracides phidon (Cramer, 1779)	2	-
Vacerra Godman, 1900
Vacerra caniola (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)	1	-
Vacerra egla (Hewitson, 1877)	3	13
Vacerra lacheres Godman, 1900	1	8

The species with an asterisk* indicates that those where caught out of the statistical analysis design.