''Carterocephalus'' is a

Holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of skipperlings in the skipper family,

Hesperiidae Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilion ...

. The wing colour is yellow, white, dark-brown and black with a variously spotted appearance. The hindwing upperside is dark with clear cut rounded lighter spots. The majority of species are

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to China.

Species

Listed alphabetically:''Carterocephalus''
funet.fi *'' Carterocephalus abax'' Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet *'' Carterocephalus alcinoides'' Lee, 1962 - Yunnan *'' Carterocephalus alcina'' Evans, 1939 - Yunnan *'' Carterocephalus argyrostigma'' (Eversmann, 1851) - Siberia, Mongolia and China *'' Carterocephalus avanti'' (de Nicéville, 1886) – orange and silver mountain hopper – Tibet *''

Carterocephalus canopunctatus ''Carterocephalus'' is a Holarctic genus of skipperlings in the skipper family, Hesperiidae. The wing colour is yellow, white, dark-brown and black with a variously spotted appearance. The hindwing upperside is dark with clear cut rounded lighte ...

'' (

Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Rus ...

1941) *'' Carterocephalus christophi'' Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 - Tibet, western China *'' Carterocephalus dieckmanni'' Graesser, 1888 - China *'' Carterocephalus flavomaculatus'' Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, West China *'' Carterocephalus gemmatus'' Leech, 1891 *'' Carterocephalus habaensis'' Yoshino, 1997 - Yunnan *'' Carterocephalus houangty'' Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, western China *'' Carterocephalus mandan'' Oberthür, 1891 *'' Carterocephalus micio'' Oberthür, 1891 - China *'' Carterocephalus niveomaculatus'' Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, West and South China *''

Carterocephalus palaemon ''Carterocephalus palaemon'', the chequered skipper or arctic skipper, not to be confused with the large chequered skipper, is a species of woodland butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. This butterfly can live in grasslands. The upperside of the ...

'' (Pallas, 1771) – chequered skipper *'' Carterocephalus pulchra'' (Leech, 1891) - Tibet, western China *'' Carterocephalus silvicola'' (Meigen, 1829) – northern chequered skipper *''Carterocephalus skada'' (W. H. Edwards, 1870) Arctic skipper, arctic skipperling

Former species

*''Carterocephalus plancus'' Hopffer, 1874 - transferred to '' Ladda plancus'' (Hopffer, 1874)

Gallery

File:Hesperidae - Carterocephalus palaemon-1.JPG, ''

'', dorsal view File:Hesperidae - Carterocephalus palaemon.JPG, ''Carterocephalus palaemon'', lateral view File:Carterocephalus silvicola.JPG, '' Carterocephalus silvicola'' File:Carterocephalus silvicola underside.jpg, ''Carterocephalus silvicola'', lateral view

References

External links

Hesperiidae of Asian Russia, from Korshunov & Gorbunov (1995)
from the Department of Entomology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
Images representing ''Carterocephalus''
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