''Halpe'' is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.

Species

*''Halpe albicilla'' de Jong & Treadaway, 1993 Sulawesi. *''Halpe arcuata'' Evans, 1937 Northeast India, Burma to Malay Peninsula, Laos, Yunnan *''Halpe aucma'' Swinhoe, 1893 Tibet *''Halpe aurifera'' (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Nias *''Halpe beturia'' (Hewitson, 1868) Sulawesi, Banggai *''Halpe burmana'' Swinhoe, 1893 Burma, Thailand, Laos *''Halpe clara'' Cassidy, 1985 Borneo *''Halpe damar'' Bedford-Russel, 1984 Sulawesi *''Halpe dante'' Evans, 1949 *''Halpe dizangpusa'' Huang, 2002 China *''Halpe elana'' Eliot, 1939 Thailand, Laos, Malaya *''Halpe fasciata'' Elwes & Edwards, 1897 *''Halpe filda'' Evans, 1949 Tibet, Sikkim *''Halpe flava'' Evans, 1926 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Malaya, Borneo *''Halpe frontieri'' Devyatkin, 1997 Vietnam *''Halpe gamma'' Evans, 1937 China, Formosa *''Halpe handa'' Evans, 1949 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Yunnan *''Halpe hauxwelli'' Evans, 1937 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan *''Halpe hermaphrodite'' Chiba & Tsukiyama, 1999 Philippines *''Halpe hieron'' de Nicéville, 1894 Sumatra *''Halpe homolea'' (Hewitson, 1868) Sikkim - Assam, Burma, Ceylon Malaya, Java *''Halpe honorei'' de Nicéville, 1887 South India *''Halpe inconspicua'' de Jong & Treadaway, 1993 Philippines *''Halpe insignis'' (Distant, 1886) Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra *''Halpe knyvetti'' Elwes & Edwards, 1897 India, Tibet, Sikkim *''Halpe kumara'' de Nicéville, 1885 Sikkim, Assam, Yunnan *''Halpe kusala'' Frühstorfer, 1911 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam *''Halpe luteisquama'' (Mabille, 1877) Philippines *''Halpe luzona'' Evans, 1949 Philippines *''Halpe mixta'' Huang, 2003 Yunnan *''Halpe molta'' Evans, 1949 Tibet *''Halpe muoi'' Huang, 1999 Yunnan *''Halpe nephele'' Leech, 1893 Sichuan, Laos *''Halpe nuydai'' Murayama & Okumura, 1973 *''Halpe ormenes'' (Plötz, 1886) Sikkim to Burma, Yunnan, Thailand, Laos, Malaya, Java *''Halpe palawea'' Staudinger, 1889 *''Halpe parakumara'' Huang, 2003 China *''Halpe paupera'' Devyatkin, 2002 Vietnam, Hong Kong *''Halpe pelethronix'' Frühstorfer, 1910 Burma, Thailand, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sundaland *''Halpe porus'' (Mabille, 1877) Nilgiris, Coorg, Kanara, Bihar, Mussoorie to Burma, West China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaya, Hainan, Langkawi *''Halpe purpurascens'' de Jong & Treadaway, 1993 Philippines *''Halpe scissa'' Cantlie, 1961 Assam *''Halpe sikkima'' Moore, 1882 Sikkim to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java *''Halpe sulphurifera'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) *''Halpe tilia'' Evans, 1949 Philippines *''Halpe toxopea'' Evans, 1932 Thailand, Langkawi, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Palawan *''Halpe veluvana'' Frühstorfer, 1911 Java *''Halpe wantona'' Swinhoe, 1893 Assam to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Malaya *''Halpe zandra'' Evans, 1937 *''Halpe zema'' (Hewitson, 1877) Sikkim to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan, Malaya, Java *''Halpe zinda'' Evans, 1937 Malaya *''Halpe zola'' Evans, 1937 Burma, Thailand, Laos

Biology

''Halpe'' larvae feed on Gramineae including ''Dinochloa'', ''Ochlandra, Ochlandra talbotii'' and ''Bambusa'' Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London
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References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

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Astictopterini Butterflies of Indochina Hesperiidae genera Taxa named by Frederic Moore Taxa described in 1878 {{Hesperiinae-stub