Muschampia Explained

Muschampia is a Palearctic genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.^[1]

Species

These species belong to the genus Muschampia:

• Muschampia alta (Schwingenschuss, 1942) Southern Italy, Balkan Peninsula^[2]
• Muschampia antonia (Speyer, 1879) Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, north Tibet
• Muschampia baeticus (Rambur, 1840)
• Muschampia cribrellum (Eversmann, 1841) (spinose skipper)
• Muschampia dravira (Moore, [1875])
• Muschampia floccifera (Zeller, 1847)
• Muschampia gigas (Bremer, 1864) east China, Amur Oblast
• Muschampia kuenlunus (Grum-Grshimailo, 1893) Central Asia (Alay Mountains, west Pamirs, Tian-Shan).
• Muschampia lavatherae (Esper, 1783)
• Muschampia leuzeae (Oberthür, 1881)
• Muschampia lutulentus (Grum-Grshimailo, 1887) Syria, Mesopotamia to Central Asia, Afghanistan
• Muschampia mohammed (Oberthür, 1887)
• Muschampia musta Evans, 1949 Afghanistan
• Muschampia nobilis (Staudinger, 1882) Central Asian mountain ranges
• Muschampia nomas (Lederer, 1855) Israel
• Muschampia orientalis (Reverdin, 1913)
• Muschampia plurimacula (Christoph, 1893) Hyrcania
• Muschampia poggei (Lederer, 1858) Asia Minor, Mesopotamia to Middle East, Transcaucasia
• Muschampia prometheus (Grum-Grshimailo, 1890) Central Asian mountain ranges
• Muschampia proteides (F.Wagner,1929) Central Asia (Alai, Ghissarsky, Tian-Shan), Afghanistan
• Muschampia proteus (Staudinger, 1886)
• Muschampia protheon (Rambur, 1858) central China (Kuku-Noor), east Mongolia to Transbaikalia
• Muschampia proto Ochsenheimer, 1808 (sage skipper)
• Muschampia stauderi (Reverdin, 1913)
• Muschampia staudingeri (Speyer, 1879) northeast Iran to Pamirs, Turkmenistan, Altai, west China
• Muschampia tersa Evans, 1949 Transcaucasia, Iran, Iraq
• Muschampia tessellum (Hübner, [1800-1803]) (tesselated skipper)

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• • • Images representing Muschampia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Notes and References

1. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/pyrginae/muschampia/ Funet
2. Hinojosa, Joan C.. Dapporto, Leonardo. Brockmann, Ernst. Dincă, Vlad. Tikhonov, Valentin. Grishin, Nick. Lukhtanov, Vladimir A.. Vila, Roger. Overlooked cryptic diversity in Muschampia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) adds two species to the European butterfly fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2021. 193. 3. 847–859 . 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa171.