Carterocephalus

Genus of butterflies

Carterocephalus
Chequered skipper
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Heteropterinae
Genus: Carterocephalus
Lederer, 1852
Species

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Carterocephalus is a Holarctic genus of skipperlings in the skipper family, Hesperiidae.

The wing colour is yellow, white, dark-brown and black with a variously spotted appearance. The hindwing upperside is dark with clear cut rounded lighter spots. The majority of species are endemic to China.

Species

Listed alphabetically:[1]

  • Carterocephalus abax Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet
  • Carterocephalus alcinoides Lee, 1962 - Yunnan
  • Carterocephalus alcina Evans, 1939 - Yunnan
  • Carterocephalus argyrostigma (Eversmann, 1851) - Siberia, Mongolia and China
  • Carterocephalus avanti (de Nicéville, 1886) – orange and silver mountain hopper – Tibet
  • Carterocephalus canopunctatus (Nabokov 1941)
  • Carterocephalus christophi Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 - Tibet, western China
  • Carterocephalus dieckmanni Graesser, 1888 - China
  • Carterocephalus flavomaculatus Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, West China
  • Carterocephalus gemmatus Leech, 1891[2]
  • Carterocephalus habaensis Yoshino, 1997 - Yunnan
  • Carterocephalus houangty Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, western China
  • Carterocephalus mandan Oberthür, 1891[2]
  • Carterocephalus micio Oberthür, 1891 - China
  • Carterocephalus niveomaculatus Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, West and South China
  • Carterocephalus palaemon (Pallas, 1771) – chequered skipper
  • Carterocephalus pulchra (Leech, 1891) - Tibet, western China
  • Carterocephalus silvicola (Meigen, 1829) – northern chequered skipper
  • Carterocephalus skada (W. H. Edwards, 1870) Arctic skipper, arctic skipperling

Former species

  • Carterocephalus plancus Hopffer, 1874 - transferred to Ladda plancus (Hopffer, 1874)

References

  1. ^ Carterocephalus, funet.fi
  2. ^ a b Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2022-03-14). "Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 2022 (921). PMC 8975183. PMID 35370352.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carterocephalus.
Wikispecies has information related to Carterocephalus.
  • Hesperiidae of Asian Russia, from Korshunov & Gorbunov (1995)
  • Lepidoptera page from the Department of Entomology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
  • Natural World Heritage Protected Areas Programme
  • Images representing Carterocephalus at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Taxon identifiers
Carterocephalus


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