Carterocephalus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Heteropterinae
Genus: Carterocephalus
Species: C. abax – C. alcinoides – C. alcina – C. argyrostigma – C. avanti – C. chayuensis – C. christophi – C. dieckmanni – C. flavomaculatus – C. gemmatus – C. habaensis – C. houangty – C. micio – C. niveomaculatus – C. palaemon – C. silvicola – C. stax – C. urasimataro
Name

Carterocephalus Lederer, 1852: 26.

Type species: Papilio paniscus Fabricius, 1775
Synonymy

Aubertia Oberthür, 1896, Etudes d'Entomologie, 20: 40, TS: Aubertia dulcis Oberthür
Pamphilida Lindsey, 1925, Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18: 95, TS: Papilio palaemon Pallas
Carterocepharus [sic] Yoshino, 1997: 8. Mis-spelling.

References

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Lederer, J., 1852. Versuch, die europaischen Lepidopteren. Die Rhopaloceren. Verhandlungen des zoologisch-botanischen Vereins in Wien 1-2: 14-54. Reference page.
Lee, C.L. 1962. Some new species of Rhopalocera from China. II. Acta entomologica sinica 11(2): 139–148. PDF Reference page.
Lee, C.L., 1979. 中国蝶类新种小志Ⅴ. [Some new species of Rhopalocera in China. V]. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 4(1): 35–38. [in Chinese with English abstract] Abstract. Reference page.
Lewis, H.L. 1974. Butterflies of the World, xvi + 104pp., 208 pls. Harrap, London. ISBN 0-245-52097-X Reference page.
Nabokov, V., 1941. On some Asiatic species of Carterocephalus. Journal of the New York entomological Society 49(3): 221-223. Reference page.
Sugiyama, H. 1992. New Butterflies from Western China (I). Pallarge 1: 1–19. Reference page.
Tuzov, V.S., Bogdanov, P.V., Devyatkin, A.L., Kaabak, L.V., Korolev, V.A., Murzin, V.S., Samodurov, G.D., Tarasov, E.A. 1997. Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories. Vol.1: Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Satyridae. Pensoft Publishers. Reference page.
Wyatt, C.W. 1965. Zwei neue Formen von holarktischen Tagfaltern. Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 50: 69- 71. PDF. Reference page.
Yoshino, K., 1997. New butterflies from China 2. Neo Lepidoptera 2: 1–8. Reference page.
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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

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

References

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