- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Butterflies and Moths
- ›Butterflies
- ›Skippers
- ›Spread-wing Skippers
- ›Checkered-Skippers, White-Skippers, and Allies
- ›Heliopetes
Heliopetes
Heliopetes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.
10 branches of this group, most-observed first

Turk's-cap White-Skipper
speciesHeliopetes macaira

Veined White-Skipper
speciesHeliopetes arsalte

Alana White-Skipper
speciesHeliopetes alana

SpaceX White-Skipper
speciesHeliopetes elonmuski

Heliopetes ochroleuca
speciesHeliopetes ochroleuca

Heliopetes marginata
speciesHeliopetes marginata

Heliopetes chimbo
speciesHeliopetes chimbo

Heliopetes petrus
speciesHeliopetes petrus

Heliopetes leucola
speciesHeliopetes leucola

Heliopetes nivella
speciesHeliopetes nivella
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Heliopetes in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1038441.