Skipperling
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| Skipperlings | |
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| Large Chequered Skipper, Heteropterus morpheus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Hesperioidea |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Heteropterinae |
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Skipperlings are butterflies in the subfamily Heteropterinae. With about 150 described species, this is one of several smallish skipper butterfly subfamilies.
[edit] List of genera
- Apostictopterus Leech, 1893.
- Argopteron Watson, 1893.
- Barca de Nicéville, 1902.
- Butleria Kirby, 1871.
- Carterocephalus Lederer, 1852.
- Cyclopedies
- Dalla Mabille, 1904.
- Dardarina Evans, 1937.
- Freemaniana Warren, 2001.
- Heteropterus Duméril, 1806.
- Hovala Evans, 1937.
- Lepella Evans, 1937.
- Leptalina Mabille, 1904.
- Metisella Hemming, 1934.
- Piruna Evans, 1955.
- Tsitana Evans, 1937.
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