Carterocephalus
Carterocephalus is a Holarctic genus of skipperlings in the skipper family, Hesperiidae.
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| Chequered skipper | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Heteropterinae |
| Genus: | Carterocephalus Lederer, 1852 |
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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 alcinus 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, West China
- Carterocephalus dieckmanni Graesser, 1888 China
- Carterocephalus flavomaculatus Oberthür, 1886 Tibet, West China
- Carterocephalus habaensis Yoshino, 1997 Yunnan
- Carterocephalus houangty Oberthür, 1886 Tibet, West China
- 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, West China
- Carterocephalus silvicola (Meigen, 1829) – northern chequered skipper
Gallery
Carterocephalus palaemon, dorsal view
Carterocephalus palaemon, lateral view
Carterocephalus silvicola, lateral view
References
- Carterocephalus, funet.fi
External links
- 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
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