''Chondrolepis'' is a genus of
skippers in the 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 ...
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The name ''Chondrolepis'' (meaning "thick scales") derives from
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
words: ''chondros'' (meaning "thick") and ' (meaning "
scale
Scale or scales may refer to:
Mathematics
* Scale (descriptive set theory), an object defined on a set of points
* Scale (ratio), the ratio of a linear dimension of a model to the corresponding dimension of the original
* Scale factor, a number ...
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Species
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Chondrolepis cynthia''
Evans, 1936
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Chondrolepis ducarmei''
T.B. Larsen & Congdon, 2012
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Chondrolepis leggei''
(Heron, 1909)
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Chondrolepis nero''
Evans, 1937
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Chondrolepis niveicornis''
(Plötz, 1883)
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Chondrolepis obscurior''
de Jong, 1986
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Chondrolepis similis''
de Jong, 1986
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Chondrolepis telisignata''
(Butler, 1896)
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Chondrolepis uluguru''
T.B. Larsen & Congdon, 2012
References
External links
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus databaseSeitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 78
Erionotini
Hesperiidae genera
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