Phyciodes

Phyciodes
	Northern crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Nymphalinae
Tribe:	Melitaeini
Subtribe:	Phyciodina
Genus:	Phyciodes; Hübner, [1819]
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Phiciodes

Phyciodes, the crescents or crescent spots (like some related genera) is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae in the family Nymphalidae.

Species[edit]

In alphabetical order:^[2]^[3]

Phyciodes batesii (Reakirt, 1865) – tawny crescent
Phyciodes cocyta (Cramer, [1777]) – northern crescent
Phyciodes graphica (R. Felder, 1869) – Vesta crescent
Phyciodes mylitta (W. H. Edwards, 1861) – Mylitta crescent
Phyciodes orseis W. H. Edwards, 1871 – Orseis crescent
Phyciodes pallescens (R. Felder, 1869) – Mexican crescent
Phyciodes pallida or Phyciodes pallidus (W. H. Edwards, 1864) – pale crescent or pallid crescentspot
Phyciodes picta (W. H. Edwards, 1865) – painted crescent
Phyciodes phaon (W. H. Edwards, 1864) – Phaon crescent
Phyciodes pulchella (Boisduval, 1852) – field crescent
Phyciodes texana (W. H. Edwards, 1863) – Texan crescent
Phyciodes tharos (Drury, [1773]) – pearl crescent

^ ITIS.gov
^ Phyciodes, Encyclopedia of Life
^ "Phyciodes Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms