--- id: 6844666b-d8ed-4e5e-9683-690688318b3b title: 'Oarisma: Genus of Grass Skipper Butterflies' abstract: Oarisma is a genus of grass skippers belonging to the butterfly family Hesperiidae, primarily found in the Americas. The genus contains approximately 14 described species and includes those formerly classified under the genus Copaeodes. This document provides the scientific classification, taxonomic history, and species list for Oarisma. classification: primary: '595.78' secondary: - '59' - '595.7' udc_main_class: '5' tags: - Oarisma - Hesperiidae - butterflies - grass skippers - taxonomy - entomology - insects topics: - Zoology - Entomology - Taxonomy author: '' created_at: '2026-06-01T00:26:27.259726' updated_at: '2026-06-01T02:12:41.104601' sources: - type: url uri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarisma format: url_fetch udc_label: Zoology, animals version: '1' --- ## Card: Oarisma: Genus of Grass Skipper Butterflies Oarisma is a genus of grass skippers belonging to the butterfly family Hesperiidae, primarily found in the Americas. The genus contains approximately 14 described species and includes those formerly classified under the genus Copaeodes. This document provides the scientific classification, taxonomic history, and species list for Oarisma. ## Classification Primary: 595.78 | Secondary: 59, 595.7 | Tags: Oarisma, Hesperiidae, butterflies, grass skippers, taxonomy, entomology, insects | Topics: Zoology, Entomology, Taxonomy ## Content Oarisma - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Species 2 Gallery 3 References 4 External links Toggle the table of contents Oarisma 7 languages Cebuano Français Nederlands Norsk bokmål Svenska Tiếng Việt Winaray Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikispecies Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Genus of butterflies Oarisma Oarisma minima , México Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Clade : Pancrustacea Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Hesperiidae Subfamily: Hesperiinae Tribe: Hesperiini Subtribe: Thymelicina Genus: Oarisma Scudder, 1872 Synonyms [ 1 ] Copaeodes Speyer, 1877 Paradopaea Godman, 1900 Oarisma is a genus of grass skippers in the butterfly family Hesperiidae . There are about 14 described species in Oarisma , found in the Americas. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 3 ] In 2019, the Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey published information placing species of the genus Copaeodes into Oarisma . These species are still sometimes treated as members of the (former) genus Copaeodes . [ 4 ] [ 2 ] Species [ edit ] These 14 species belong to the genus Oarisma : [ 2 ] Oarisma aurantiaca (Hewitson, 1868) (orange skipperling) (United States south to Guatemala) Oarisma boeta Hewitson, 1870 (South America) Oarisma bruneri Bell, 1959 (Cuba) Oarisma castanea Mielke, 1969 (Brazil) Oarisma edwardsii (W. Barnes, 1897) (Edwards's skipperling) (United States and Mexico) Oarisma eoa (anegada skipperling) (Virgin Islands) Oarisma era Dyar (gold-veined skipperling) (North America) Oarisma favor Evans, 1955 (Virgin Islands) Oarisma garita (Reakirt, 1866) (garita skipperling) (North America) Oarisma jean Evans, 1955 (South America) Oarisma minima (W. H. Edwards, 1870) (southern skipperling) (southern United States south to Costa Rica) Oarisma nanus Herrich-Schäffer, 1865 (nanus skipperling) (Cuba) Oarisma poweshiek (Parker, 1870) (Poweshiek skipperling) (North America) Oarisma stillmani (Bell & Comstock, 1948) (Stillman's skipperling) (Hispaniola) Gallery [ edit ] Oarisma aurantiaca , Arizona Oarisma garita , South Dakota Oarisma jean , Brasil Oarisma edwardsii , Arizona Oarisma boeta , Ecuador References [ edit ] ^ a b "ITIS report, Oarisma " . Retrieved 2025-01-09 . ^ a b c "Butterflies of America, Family Hesperiidae Latreille, 1809 - Skippers" . Retrieved 2025-01-09 . ^ "GBIF, Oarisma " . Retrieved 2025-01-09 . ^ Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Opler, Paul A.; et al. (2019). "Changes to North American butterfly names" (PDF) . The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey . 8 (2). ISSN   2643-4806 . External links [ edit ] Citizen science observations for Oarisma at iNaturalist Media related to Oarisma at Wikimedia Commons Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Taxon identifiers Oarisma Wikidata : Q1762611 Wikispecies : Oarisma BioLib: 644085 BOLD : 3289 BugGuide : 13055 ButMoth: 19936.0 CoL : 92GXF EoL : 20599 GBIF : 1951332 iNaturalist : 119149 Insecta.pro: 26757 IRMNG : 1105204 ITIS : 706435 LepIndex : 185757 NCBI : 509438 Open Tree of Life : 193709 Plazi : 6E261076-B4C8-8C8B-E220-79B6037184C5 ZooBank : BF16F67A-F684-4559-8EA8-4D6910767112 Authority control databases National Israel Other Yale LUX This Hesperiinae -related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information . v t e Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oarisma&oldid=1344754533 " Categories : Grass skippers Skipper (butterfly) genera Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder Grass skipper stubs Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles with 'species' microformats Commons category link from Wikidata All stub articles This page was last edited on 22 March 2026, at 10:07  (UTC) . Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy . Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. , a non-profit organization. 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