Thymelicus

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: Hesperiini
Subtribus: Thymelicina
Genus: Thymelicus
Species: T. acteon – T. alaica – T. hamza – T. hyrax – T. leonina – T. lineola – T. nova – T. stigma – T. sylvatica – T. sylvestris
Name

Thymelicus Hübner, 1819.

Type Species: Papilio acteon Rottemburg, 1775: 30. per Butler, 1874: 94.
Synonymy

Thymelicus Hübner, 1819: 113.
Adopoea Billberg, 1820: 81.
Pelion Kirby, 1858: see Hemming, 1967: 349.
Doricha Moore, 1883: 317. TS: Papilio sylvester Fabricius, 1793. (Preoccupied by Doricha Reichenbach, 1853 (Aves: Trochilidae))

References

Billberg, G.J. 1820. Enumeratio insectorum in museo Gust. Joh. Billberg. Stockholm, 138 pp. BHL Reference page.
Butler, A.G. 1870. The Genera of Hesperidae in the Collection of the British Museum. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 7: 55–58, 92–99, 265–266. Reference page.
Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56. web. Reference page.
Filipjev, N.N., 1931. Lepidoptera. Abhandlungen der Pamir-Expedition, 1928. 8 : 149-150. Reference page.
Fujioka, T. 1993. Rare, local and little known butterflies from Japan (5). A new subspecies of Thymelicus leoninus from a localized area of Shikoku. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 6: 3–10. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Hübner, J. 1819. Verzeichniß bekannter Schmettlinge 2–11: 17–176. BHL Reference page.
de Jong, R., 1984. Notes on the Genus: Thymelicus Hübner (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 7(2): 148-163. PDF Reference page.
Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page.
Moore, F., 1883. A Monograph of Linnaina and Euploeina, two Groups of Diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Subfamily Euploeinae, with Descriptions of new Genera and Species. Parts 1 Linnaina: 201–252 & 2 Euploeina: 253–324, pls 29-32. BHL1, BHL2 plates. Reference page.
Plötz, C. 1884. Die Hesperiinen-Gattung Thymelicus Hüb. und ihre Arten. Entomologische Zeitung 45: 284–290. Reference page.
Rottemburg, S.A. von, 1775. Anmerkungen zu den Hufnagelischen Tabellen der Schmetterlinge. Erste Abtheilung. Der Naturforscher 6: 1–34. Online. Reference page.
Wyatt, C.W. 1961. Additions to the Rhopalocera of Afghanistan, with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 15(1): 1–18. PDF. Reference page.
Yakovlev, R.V. & Doroshkin 2012. New subspecies of Thymelicus lineola (Ochsenheimer, 1808) (Lepidoptera: Hesperidae) from Western Mongolia. Amurian zoological journal 4(2): 181–183. [In Russian, with English summary] PDF Reference page.

Thymelicus is a Palearctic genus in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. The genus is the only member of the tribe Thymelini, but many skipper butterflies are yet to be assigned to tribes, so this might change eventually.
Species

Thymelicus acteon (Lulworth skipper) - (Rottemburg, 1775)
Thymelicus alaica - (Filipjev, 1931)
?Thymelicus christi (Rebel, 1894) - uncertain taxonomic status
Thymelicus flavus
Thymelicus hamza - (Oberthür, 1876)
Thymelicus hyrax - (Lederer, 1861)
Thymelicus leonina (Butler, 1878)
Thymelicus lineola - (Essex skipper)-(Ochsenheimer, 1808)
Thymelicus nervulata
Thymelicus novus - (Reverdin, 1916)
Thymelicus stigma - Staudinger, 1886
Thymelicus sylvatica - (Bremer, 1861)
Thymelicus sylvestris (small skipper) - (Poda, 1761)

References and external links

Hesperiidae page from FaunaItalia
Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Preliminary species list. Version of 2006-DEC-31. Retrieved 2007-MAY-28.
Thymelicus page from Russian-insects.com
Images representing Thymelicus at Consortium for the Barcode of Life