''Ochlodes venatus'' (vive en el Parc Montenegre y corredor, en Cataluña) is a

skipper butterfly 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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in the

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Hesperiidae. The name was long used for the large skipper of

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, but it actually refers to its

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ern sister species and the large skipper is now called ''O. sylvanus''. There is some dispute however about whether the large skipper should not better placed in ''O. venatus'' as a

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''sylvanus'' or ''faunus''. An ICZN Opinion in 1944 noted that the genus name ''Ochlodes'' is masculine, so the correct epithet for this species is ''venatus''. However, many sources continue to list it as ''Ochlodes venata''. These two skippers are possibly

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. ''Ochlodes venatus'' occurs from there eastwards to

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and

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''The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years.''

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, 1991. ; p. 88 Ochlodes Butterflies described in 1853 {{Hesperiini-stub