Taractrocerini

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: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Taractrocerini
Genera: Arrhenes – Banta – Cephrenes – Kobrona – Mimene – Ocybadistes – Oriens – Pastria – Potanthus – Sabera – Suniana – Taractrocera – Telicota

Name

Taractrocerini Voss, 1952.
Synonymy

Taractrocerini Voss; Warren, Ogawa & Brower, 2008: 645.

References

de Jong, R. 2008. Notes on some skippers of the Taractrocera-group (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae) from New Guinea. Zoologische Mededelingen 82(10): 1-16; 73–80.Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1925. The identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.8. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 30(3): 610–639, pl.28. BHL. Reference page.
Huang, H. 2002. Some New Butterflies from China – 2 (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). Atalanta 33(1/2): 109–122. PDF. Reference page.
Swinhoe, C. 1907. New Species of African and Indo-Malayan Hesperiidae. The Annals and magazine of Natural History (7)20: 430-436. BHL. Reference page.
Swinhoe, C. 1908. On the species of Hesperidae from the Indo-Malayan and African Regions, described by Herr Plötz, with descriptions of some new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1908, Pt.1: 1–36, pls. 1–3. Text, plates. Reference page.
Warren, A.D., Ogawa, J.R. & Brower, A.V.Z. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of subfamilies and circumscription of tribes in the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea). Cladistics 24(5): 642–676. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00218.x PDF Reference page.

The Taractrocerini , the orange grass skippers are a tribe in the Hesperiinae subfamily of skipper butterflies.
Genera

Arrhenes
Banta
Cephrenes
Kobrona
Mimene
Ocybadistes
Oriens
Pastria
Potanthus
Taractrocera
Telicota
Sabera
Suniana