Celaenorrhinini Explained

The Celaenorrhinini are a tribe of spread-winged skippers in the skipper butterfly subfamily Tagiadinae.

These skippers are mainly found in tropical Africa. A few are found in Asia, and some species presently placed in the (paraphyletic) type genus Celaenorrhinus are found in the Neotropics.

Genera

The following genera  - listed in the presumed phylogenetic sequence  - are placed in the Celaenorrhinini:^[1]

• Alenia
• Aurivittia^[2]
• Apallaga
• Celaenorrhinus  - sprites, "flats" (paraphyletic)
• Kobelana^[3]
• Eretis  - "elves"
• Sarangesa  - "elfins" (formerly often in Tagiadini)
• Pseudocoladenia (formerly often in Tagiadini)

References

• (2009): Tree of Life Web Project  - Celaenorrhini. Version of 2009-JUN-14. Retrieved 2009-DEC-24.

Notes and References

1. Brower (2009)
2. Zhang . Jing . Cong . Qian . Shen . Jinhui . Brockmann . Ernst . Grishin . Nick V. . 2019-07-08 . Three new subfamilies of skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) . ZooKeys . 861 . 91–105 . 10.3897/zookeys.861.34686 . 31333327 . 6629708 . 1313-2970. free . 2019ZooK..861...91Z .
3. 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.