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Carterocephalus

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Carterocephalus
Chequered skipper
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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

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Listed alphabetically:[1]

Former species

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  • Carterocephalus plancus Hopffer, 1874 - transferred to Ladda plancus (Hopffer, 1874)
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References

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  1. ^ Carterocephalus, funet.fi
  2. ^ 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.
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