Carterocephalus
Appearance
Carterocephalus | |
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Chequered skipper | |
Scientific 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
[edit]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
[edit]- Carterocephalus plancus Hopffer, 1874 - transferred to Ladda plancus (Hopffer, 1874)
Gallery
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Carterocephalus palaemon, dorsal view
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Carterocephalus palaemon, lateral view
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Carterocephalus silvicola, lateral view
References
[edit]- ^ Carterocephalus, funet.fi
- ^ 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.
External links
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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