Carterocephalus

<i>Carterocephalus</i>

Carterocephalus

Genus of butterflies

Carterocephalus is a Holarctic genus of skipperlings in the skipper family, Hesperiidae.

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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

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

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

References

  1. [1]
    Carterocephalus, funet.fi
  2. [2]
    Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2022-03-14). "Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi.
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