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Erionotini
The Erionotini are a tribe in the Hesperiinae subfamily of skipper butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The .... Genera References * , 1996: The ''Pteroteinon'' caenira-complex of African skippers, with the description of a new species (P. concaenira) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). ''Lambillionea'' 96(4): 616-622. * , 2000: Hesperiidae of Vietnam: 6. Two new species of the genera ''Suada'' de Nicéville, 1895 and ''Quedara'' Swinhoe, 1907 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). ''Atalanta'' 31 (1/2): 193-197. * , 2004: Taxonomic studies on Oriental Hesperiidae, 1. A revision of the ''Scobura coniata'' Hering, 1918-group. (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). ''Atalanta'' 35 (1-2): 57-66. * , 2007: Hesperiidae of Vietnam, 16. A new species and a new record of the Hesperiidae from Cen ...
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Acada
''Acada'' is an Afrotropical genus of skippers. Species *'' Acada annulifer'' (Holland, 1292) *'' Acada biseriata'' (Mabille, 1393) References External links Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database3f64/mode/1up Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 77
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Acerbas (skipper)
''Acerbas'' is an Indomalayan genus of skipper butterflies. Species Species in ''Acerbas'' are: * '' Acerbas anthea'' (Hewitson, 1868) (Burma to Malaya, Java, Cambodia, Luzon) * '' Acerbas azona'' (Hewitson, 1866) (Celebes) * '' Acerbas duris'' (Mabille, 1883) (Philippines) * '' Acerbas latefascia'' de Jong, 1982 (Celebes) * '' Acerbas martini'' (Distant & Pryer, 1887) (Philippines) * '' Acerbas nitidifasciata'' Elwes & Edwards, 1897 * '' Acerbas selta'' Evans, 1949 (Borneo) * '' Acerbas suttoni'' Russel, 1984 (Celebes) Biology ''Acerbas anthea'' larvae feed on ''Calamus Calamus may refer to: Botany and zoology * ''Calamus'' (fish), a genus of fish in the family Sparidae * ''Calamus'' (palm), a genus of rattan palms * Calamus, the hollow shaft of a feather, also known as the quill * '' Acorus calamus'', the swe ...''.Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural ...
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Chondrolepis
''Chondrolepis'' is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. The name ''Chondrolepis'' (meaning "thick scales") derives from Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ... words: ''chondros'' (meaning "thick") and ' (meaning " scale"). Species *'' Chondrolepis cynthia'' Evans, 1936 *'' Chondrolepis ducarmei'' T.B. Larsen & Congdon, 2012 *'' Chondrolepis leggei'' (Heron, 1909) *'' Chondrolepis nero'' Evans, 1937 *'' Chondrolepis niveicornis'' (Plötz, 1883) *'' Chondrolepis obscurior'' de Jong, 1986 *'' Chondrolepis similis'' de Jong, 1986 *'' Chondrolepis telisignata'' (Butler, 1896) *'' Chondrolepis uluguru'' T.B. Larsen & Congdon, 2012 References External linksNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
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Alera
''Alera'' is a Neotropical genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. Species *''Alera furcata'' Mabille, 1891 Brazil *''Alera haworthiana'' (Swainson, 1821) – green-banded ruby-eye – Panama to south Brazil *''Alera manu'' Mielke & Casagrande, 2004 Peru, Brazil *''Alera metallica'' (Riley, 1921) Brazil *''Alera romeroi'' Mielke & Casagrande, 2004 Venezuela *''Alera vulpina ''Alera'' is a Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperat ...'' (C. & R. Felder, 1867) Colombia References External links Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Erionotini Hesperiidae of South America Hesperiidae genera {{Erionotini-stub ...
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Gamia
''Gamia'' is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. Species *'' Gamia abri'' Miller & Collins, 1997 *'' Gamia buchholzi'' (Plötz, 1879) *'' Gamia shelleyi'' (Sharpe, 1890) References Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 80 External linksNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Erionotini Hesperiidae genera {{Erionotini-stub ...
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Fresna
''Fresna'' is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. They are commonly known as Acraea skippers. Species *''Fresna carlo'' Evans, 1937 *''Fresna cojo'' (Karsch, 1893) *''Fresna jacquelinae'' Collins & Larsen, 2003 *''Fresna maesseni'' Miller, 1971 *''Fresna netopha'' (Hewitson, 1878) *''Fresna nyassae ''Fresna nyassae'', the variegated Acraea skipper or variegated Acraea hopper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Ghana and Kenya to South Africa. The wingspan is 34–38 mm for males and 39–42 mm for females. ...'' (Hewitson, 1878) References External linksNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus databaseSeitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 78
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Acleros
''Acleros'' is an Afrotropical genus of skippers. Species *'' Acleros bibundica'' Strand, 1913 *'' Acleros leucopyga'' (Mabille, 1877) *'' Acleros mackenii'' (Trimen, 1868) *'' Acleros neavei'' Evans, 1937 *'' Acleros nigrapex'' Strand, 1913 *'' Acleros ploetzi'' Mabille, 1889 *'' Acleros sparsum'' Druce, 1909 ''Acleros bala'' described by Berger from Ghana is a manuscript name. ReferencesNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database External linksSeitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 77
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Cupitha
''Cupitha purreea'', commonly known as the wax dart, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae and only species of the genus ''Cupitha''. Distribution It is found from southern India and Sikkim to Burma, southern Yunnan, the Andamans, Thailand, Laos, Langkawi, Malaysia, Tioman, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Java, the Philippines and Sulawesi. Description Biology Larvae are known to fed on ''Quisqualis indica'', ''Terminalia paniculata'', ''Terminalia bellirica ''Terminalia bellirica'', known as baheda, bahera, behada, beleric or bastard myrobalan (Arabic: beliledj بليلج, borrowed from Middle Persian Balilag), Persian بلیله (Balileh), Sanskrit: Bibhitaka बिभीतक, Aksha is a large ...'', '' Combretum ovalifolium'' and '' Ehretia''.Vane-Wright, R.I, & de Jong, R. (2003). The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 343, 3–267 https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/220217/ page 67 References ...
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Apostictopterus
''Apostictopterus'' is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It contains only one species, ''Apostictopterus fuliginosus'', which is found in India (Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...) and West China. Subspecies *''Apostictopterus fuliginosus fuliginosus'' *''Apostictopterus fuliginosus curiosa'' (Swinhoe, 1917) (Assam) References External linksNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Erionotini Butterflies of Indochina Monotypic butterfly genera Hesperiidae genera Butterflies described in 1893 {{Erionotini-stub ...
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Andronymus
''Andronymus'' is an Afrotropical genus of grass skippers Grass skippers or banded skippers are butterflies of the subfamily Hesperiinae, part of the skipper family, Hesperiidae. The subfamily was established by Pierre André Latreille in 1809. Description and distribution With over 2,000 described sp ... in the family Hesperiidae. Species *'' Andronymus bjornstadi'' Congdon, Kielland & Collins, 1998 *'' Andronymus caesar'' (Fabricius, 1793) *'' Andronymus evander'' (Mabille, 1890) *'' Andronymus fenestrella'' Bethune-Baker, 1908 *'' Andronymus fontainei'' T.B. Larsen & Congdon, 2012 *'' Andronymus gander'' Evans, 1947 *'' Andronymus helles'' Evans, 1937 *'' Andronymus hero'' Evans, 1937 *'' Andronymus marcus'' Usher, 1980 *'' Andronymus marina'' Evans, 1937 *'' Andronymus neander'' (Plötz, 1884) References Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database External linksat Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der E ...
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Erionota
''Erionota'' is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Indomalayan realm Species *'' Erionota acroleuca'' (Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1881) Vietnam *'' Erionota grandis'' (Leech, 1890) West China *'' Erionota harmachis'' (Hewitson, 1878) Sumatra *'' Erionota hiraca'' (Moore, 1881) Sikkim to Burma, Thailand, North Vietnam, Malaya, Singapore, Borneo, Nias, Batoe, Sipora, Java, Bali, Lombok and (''E. h. sakita'' (Ribbe, 1889)) Sulawesi, Bangka, Banggai, Sula Island *'' Erionota hislopi'' Evans, 1956 *'' Erionota surprisa'' de Jong & Treadaway, 1993 Leyte (Philippines) *'' Erionota sybirita'' (Hewitson, 1876) *'' Erionota thrax'' (Linnaeus, 1767) *'' Erionota tribus'' Evans, 1941 Celebes *'' Erionota torus'' Evans, 1941 Biology The larvae feed on Gramineae, Palmae The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as ...
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Agathymus
''Agathymus'' is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae. They occur in the North American deserts. The genus was described by Hugh Avery Freeman in 1959. The larvae bore into the stems of agave plants. These butterflies have been treated as members of the disputed skipper subfamily Megathyminae, but are also considered sufficiently distinct to be in their own family, Megathymidae, along with the genera '' Megathymus'' and '' Stallingsia''. Species *species group In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ... unknown **'' Agathymus alliae'' (Stallings & Turner, 1957) **'' Agathymus aryxna'' (Dyar, 1905) **'' Agathymus belli'' (Freeman, 1955) **'' Agathymus carlsbadensis'' (Stallings & Turner, 1957) **'' Agathymus comstocki'' (Harbison, 1957) **'' Agathymus ...
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