Chaetocneme

Chaetocneme is genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Chaetocneme
Chaetocneme denitza
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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.

Selected species


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