''Timoconia'' is a genus of shield-skippers in the

butterfly 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 ...

family

Hesperiidae 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 ...

. There are at least four described species in ''Timoconia'', found in Australia.

Species

These four species belong to the genus ''Timoconia'': * '' Timoconia flammeata'' (Butler, 1882) (bright shield-skipper) * '' Timoconia melania'' (Waterhouse, 1903) (dark grass-skipper) * '' Timoconia peron'' Latreille, 1824 (large dingy skipper) * '' Timoconia tymbophora'' (Meyrick & Lower, 1902) (dark shield-skipper)

References

Trapezitinae Hesperiidae genera {{hesperiidae-stub