''Chirgus'' is a genus of checkered-skippers, white-skippers, and allies in the

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...

family

Hesperiidae Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...

, found in the

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. The genus was erected by Nick V. Grishin in 2019. There are about six described species in ''Chirgus''. As a result of a 2019 study of the genomes of 250 representative species of skippers, the genera ''Chirgus'' was created to contain six related species formerly in the genus ''

Pyrgus ''Pyrgus'' is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the grizzled skippers. The name "checkered" or "chequered skipper" may also be applied to some species, but also refers to species in the genera ''Burnsius'' and '' ...

''.

Species

These six species belong to the genus ''Chirgus'': * '' Chirgus barrosi'' (Ureta, 1956) * '' Chirgus bocchoris'' (Hewitson, 1874) * '' Chirgus fides'' (Hayward, 1940) * '' Chirgus limbata'' (Erschoff, 1876) * '' Chirgus nigella'' (Weeks, 1902) * '' Chirgus veturius'' (Plötz, 1884)

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