Thymelicus
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| Male Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Hesperiinae |
| Tribe: | Thymelini |
| Genus: | Thymelicus Hubner, 1819 |
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Thymelicus is a genus in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. It is presently the only member of the tribe Thymelini, but many skipper butterflies are yet to be assigned to tribes, so this might change eventually.
[edit] Species
- Thymelicus acteon (Lulworth Skipper) - (Rottemburg, 1775)
- Thymelicus alaica - (Filipjev, 1931)
- Thymelicus flavus
- Thymelicus hamza - (Oberthür, 1876)
- Thymelicus hyrax - (Lederer, 1861)
- Thymelicus leonina (Essex Skipper) - (Butler, 1878)
- Thymelicus lineola - (Ochsenheimer, 1808)
- Thymelicus nervulata
- Thymelicus novus - (Reverdin, 1916)
- Thymelicus stigma - Staudinger, 1886
- Thymelicus sylvatica - (Bremer, 1861)
- Thymelicus sylvestris (Small Skipper) - (Poda, 1761)
[edit] References and external links
- Hesperiidae page from FaunaItalia
- Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Preliminary species list. Version of 2006-DEC-31. Retrieved 2007-MAY-28.
- Thymelicus page from Russian-insects.com
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