Carterocephalus Explained
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 alcina 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, western China
- Carterocephalus dieckmanni Graesser, 1888 - China
- Carterocephalus flavomaculatus Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, West China
- Carterocephalus gemmatus Leech, 1891[2]
- Carterocephalus habaensis Yoshino, 1997 - Yunnan
- Carterocephalus houangty Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, western China
- Carterocephalus mandan Oberthür, 1891
- 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, western China
- Carterocephalus silvicola (Meigen, 1829) – northern chequered skipper
- Carterocephalus skada (W. H. Edwards, 1870) Arctic skipper, arctic skipperling
Former species
- Carterocephalus plancus Hopffer, 1874 - transferred to Ladda plancus (Hopffer, 1874)
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/heteropterinae/carterocephalus/index.html Carterocephalus
- Zhang . Jing . Cong . Qian . Shen . Jinhui . Grishin . Nick . 2022-03-14 . Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) . Insecta Mundi . 2022 . 921 . 35370352 . 8975183 . en.
