Celaenorrhinini
The Celaenorrhinini are a tribe of spread-winged skippers in the skipper butterfly subfamily Tagiadinae.
| Celaenorrhinini | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Common small flat (Sarangesa dasahara) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Tagiadinae |
| Tribe: | Celaenorrhinini Swinhoe, 1912 |
| Diversity | |
| 8 genera | |
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)
Footnotes
- Brower (2009)
- 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.861.34686. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6629708. PMID 31333327.
- 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). PMC 8975183. PMID 35370352.
References
Media related to Celaenorrhinini at Wikimedia Commons
- Brower, Andrew V.Z. (2009): Tree of Life Web Project – Celaenorrhini. Version of 2009-JUN-14. Retrieved 2009-DEC-24.
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