Proteides

Proteides is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Species
The following two species are recognised in the genus Proteides
 * Proteides maysi (Lucas, 1857) Cuba
 * Proteides mercurius (Fabricius, 1787)  South America,  Arizona
 * P. m. mercurius French Guiana, Suriname
 * P. m. sanantonio  (Lucas, 1857) Cuba
 * P. m. angasi  Godman & Salvin, 1884 Dominica
 * P. m. pedro (Dewitz, 1877) Puerto Rico
 * P. m. jamaicensis  Skinner, 1920 Jamaica
 * P. m. sanchesi Bell & Comstock, 1948 Haiti
 * P. m. vincenti Bell & Comstock, 1948 Saint Vincent
 * P. m. grenadensis  Enrico & Pinchon, 1969 Grenada

Former species

 * Proteides modius Mabille, 1889 - transferred to Thoon modius (Mabille, 1889)