title: Pheles (butterfly)
text: # Pheles (butterfly)
  
  Pheles is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Pheles atricolor (Butler, 1871) present in French Guiana, Brazil and Peru
  * Pheles bicolor (Godman & Salvin, [1886]) present in Panama and Costa Rica (requires confirmation)
  * Pheles eulesca (Dyar, 1909) present in Mexico and Panama
  * Pheles heliconides Herrich-Schäffer, [1858] present in French Guiana, Guyana, Ecuador and Brazil
  * Pheles incerta Staudinger, [1887] present in Colombia and Peru
  * Pheles melanchroia (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) present in Mexico and Guatemala
  * Pheles ochracea (Stichel, 1910) present in Venezuela and Panama
  * Pheles strigosa (Staudinger, 1876) present in Panama, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru
  
  ### Sources
  
  * Pheles sur funet
  