Erynnis is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the duskywings. Erynnis is found in the Neotropical ecozone and across the Palearctic but the highest species diversity is in the Nearctic.
Kingdom : Animalia
Phylum : Arthropoda
Class : Insecta
Order : Lepidoptera
Family : Hesperiidae
Subfamily : Pyrginae
Tribe : Erynnini
Genus : Erynnis
Schrank, 1801