Trapezitinae

Trapezitinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
(unranked):	Rhopalocera
Superfamily:	Hesperioidea
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Trapezitinae
Genera
Rachelia Hemming, 1964 Trapezites Hübner, 1819 Anisynta Lower, 1911 Pasma Waterhouse, 1932 Dispar Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 Felicena Waterhouse, 1932 Neohesperilla Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 Toxidia Mabille, 1891 Signeta Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 Oreisplanus Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 Hesperilla Hewitson, 1868 Hewitsoniella Shepard, 1931 Motasingha Watson, 1893 Antipodia Atkins, 1984 Proeidosa Atkins, 1973 Croitana Waterhouse, 1932 Herimosa Atkins, 1994 Mesodina Meyrick, 1901

Trapezitinae is a subfamily of the Hesperiidae ("skippers") family of butterflies. They are found only in New Guinea and Australia.The subfamily contains about sixty species in sixteen genera.

References

• Ackery, P.R., de Jong, R and Vane-Wright, R.I. (1999). The Butterflies: Hedyloidea, Hesperioidea and Papilionoidae. Pp. 263-300 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.(Hesperioidea de Jong)

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