title: Melanopyge
text: # Melanopyge
  
  Melanopyge is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Melanopyge cossea (Druce, 1875) cossea skipper - Colombia
  * Melanopyge erythrosticta (Godman & Salvin, 1879) spotted skipper - southeast Mexico to Panama
  * Melanopyge hoffmanni (Freeman, 1977) Hoffmann's skipper - southeast Mexico, Belize
  * Melanopyge maculosa (Hewitson, 1866) maculosa skipper - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
  * Melanopyge mulleri (Bell, 1934) red-spotted skipper - southeast Mexico
  