Taxonavigation

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Baorini
Genus: Pelopidas
Species: P. agna – P. assamensis – P. baibarana – P. conjuncta – P. flava – P. grisemarginata – P. jansonis – P. lyelli – P. mathias – P. sinensis – P. subochracea – P. thrax

Name

Pelopidas Walker, 1870.

Type species: Pelopidas midea Walker, 1870, by monotypy.

References

• Evans, W.H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix+502pp., 53 pls. BMNH, London. Reference page. 

• Fan, X.L., Chiba, H., Huang, Z.F., Fei, W., Wang, M. & Sáfián, S. 2016. Clarification of the Phylogenetic Framework of the Tribe Baorini (Lepidoptera:Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae) Inferred from Multiple Gene Sequences. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0156861. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156861. Zoobank Reference page. 

• Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page. 

• Jiang, W., He, H., Li, Y., Wang, Y., Ge, C., Zhu, J. & Yu, W. 2019. Molecular phylogeny of the butterfly tribe Baorini Doherty, 1886 (Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae) in China. Zootaxa 4565(1): 108–116. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4565.1.8 Reference page. 

• Moore, F. 1881-83. The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Vols. 1, 190pp, pls 1–71. 2, 162pp, pls 72–143. L. Reeve & Co., London. Reference page. 

• Toussaint, E.F.A., Vila, R., Yago, M., Chiba, H., Warren, A.D., Aduse-Poku, K., Storer, C., Dexter, K.M., Maruyama, K., Lohman, D.J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2019. Out of the Orient: Post-Tethyan transoceanic and trans-Arabian routes fostered the spread of Baorini skippers in the Afrotropics. Systematic Entomology 44(4): 926–938. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12365 Reference page. 

• Walker, F. 1870. A list of the butterflies collected by J.K. Lord, Esq., in Egypt, along the African shore of the Red Sea, and in Arabia; with descriptions of the species new to science. Entomologist 5: 48-57. Reference page. 

• Yuan, X.Q., Zhang, Y.L. & Yuan, F. 2010. Checklist of the Skipper Genus Pelopidas (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from China with Description of a New Species. Entomotaxonomia 32(3): 201–208. Reference page. 

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