Chaetocneme
Chaetocneme is genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.
| Chaetocneme | |
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| Chaetocneme denitza | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Netrocorynini |
| Genus: | Chaetocneme Felder, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Chaetocneme corvus Felder, 1860 | |
| Species | |
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Several, see text | |
The genus was established in 1860 with "Chaetocneme corvus" – then newly described as it was believed – as the type species. However, the same species was already described by Pieter Cramer in 1775 under the name "Papilio helirius". Thus, the type species is nowadays called Chaetocneme helirius.
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