Trapezitinae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Trapezitinae
Genera: Anisynta – Anisyntoides – Antipodia – Croitana – Dispar – Felicena – Herimosa – Hesperilla – Hewitsoniella – Lotongus – Mesodina – Motasingha – Neohesperilla – Oreisplanus – Pasma – Prada – Proeidosa – Rachelia – Signeta – Toxidia – Trapezites
Name

Trapezitinae Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914, 173.
References
Primary references

Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia. A monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera. 238 pp., 888 figs. Sydney. BHL Reference page.
Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Notes on the Type Specimens of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) in the Museums in Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 5: 49–62. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Butterfly Net International, Higher Classification of Hesperiidae[1]
Ackery, P.R., de Jong, R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1999. The Butterflies: Hedyloidea, Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea. in Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology 4(35): 263–300 (ed. N.P. Kristensen). Berlin: de Gruyter. Reference page.
Atkins, A., 1973. A new genus Proeidosa for an Australian skipper, Pasma polysema (Lower) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Trapezitinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 12(4): 253–260. PDF. Reference page.
Atkins, A., 1978. The Hesperilla malindeva group from northern Australia, including a new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17(2): 205–215. PDF. Reference page.
Li, W., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Zhang, J., Hallwachs, W., Janzen, D.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns. PNAS 116(13): 6232–6237. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1821304116. Text. SI Appendix. Reference page.
Toussaint, E.F.A., Breinholt, J.W., Earl, C., Warren, A.D., Brower, A.V.Z., Yago, M., Dexter, K.M., Espeland, M., Pierce, N.E., Lohman, D.J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 101. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1216-z 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.
Warren, A.D., Ogawa, J.R. & Brower, A.V.Z. 2009. Revised classification of the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea) based on combined molecular and morphological data. Systematic entomology 34(3): 467–523. Reference page.
Zhang, J., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Brockmann, E. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Three new subfamilies of skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). ZooKeys 861: 91–105. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.861.34686 Reference page.

Trapezitinae is a subfamily of the Hesperiidae ("skippers") family of butterflies. They are found only in New Guinea and Australia. The subfamily contains about 60 species in 16 genera.
Genera

Anisynta Lower, 1911
Antipodia Atkins, 1984
Croitana Waterhouse, 1932
Dispar Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914
Felicena Waterhouse, 1932
Herimosa Atkins, 1994
Hesperilla Hewitson, 1868
Hewitsoniella Shepard, 1931
Mesodina Meyrick, 1901
Motasingha Watson, 1893
Neohesperilla Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914
Oreisplanus Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914
Pasma Waterhouse, 1932
Proeidosa Atkins, 1973
Signeta Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914
Rachelia Hemming, 1964
Toxidia Mabille, 1891
Trapezites Hübner, 1819

References

Ackery, P.R., de Jong, R and Vane-Wright, R.I. (1999). The Butterflies: Hedyloidea, Hesperioidea and Papilionoidae. pp. 263–300 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.(Hesperioidea de Jong)