''Chaetocneme'' is

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

skipper butterflies Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...

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Hesperiidae). It belongs to the

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Tagiadini The Tagiadini are a tribe in the skipper butterfly subfamily Pyrginae. Many of its genera were of uncertain relationships for long, and delimitation of the Tagiadini versus the Celaenorrhini was quite disputed at times. The species of this tribe ar ...

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Pyrginae. The genus was established in 1860 with ''"Chaetocneme corvus"'' – then newly described as it was believed – as the

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was already described by Pieter Cramer in 1775 under the name ''"Papilio helirius"''. Thus, the type species is nowadays called ''

Chaetocneme helirius ''Chaetocneme'' is genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae). It belongs to the tribe Tagiadini of subfamily Pyrginae. The genus was established in 1860 with ''"Chaetocneme corvus"'' – then newly described as it was believed &nda ...

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Chaetocneme beata ''Chaetocneme beata'', the common red-eye, eastern dull-flat or eastern dusk-flat, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Australia on the edges of the upland rainforest along the coast of Queensland and New South W ...

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Chaetocneme denitza ''Chaetocneme denitza'', commonly known as the rare red-eye or ornate dusk-flat, is a butterfly of the skipper family. It is endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, ...

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