''Ochlodes'' is a

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in the skipper

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

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 genus is placed in the tribe

Hesperiini The Hesperiini or branded grass skippers are a tribe (biology), tribe in the Hesperiinae subfamily of skipper butterflies. They are known as branded grass skippers because all the males in this tribe feature a black diagonal ''brand'' of scales o ...

. Examples of ''Ochlodes'' species: *'' Ochlodes agricola'' Boisduval 1852 California to Oregon *'' Ochlodes amurensis'' Mabille 1909 Amur Oblast – may be forma of ''Ochlodes venata'' (Bremer & Grey, 1853) *'' Ochlodes asahinai'' Shirozu Japan *'' Ochlodes batesi'' Bell 1935 Haiti *'' Ochlodes bouddha'' Mabille 1876 China *'' Ochlodes brahma'' Moore 1878 Northwest Himalaya *'' Ochlodes crataeis'' Leech 1893 China *'' Ochlodes flavomaculata'' Draeseke & Reuss *'' Ochlodes formosana'' Matsumura 1919 Taiwan – may be subspecies of ''Ochlodes subhyalina'' (Bremer & Grey, 1853) *'' Ochlodes hasegawai'' Chiba & Tsukiyama 1996 *'' Ochlodes hyrcanna'' Christoph 1893 *'' Ochlodes klapperichii'' Evans 1940 *'' Ochlodes lanta'' Evans 1939 *'' Ochlodes linga'' Evans 1939 *'' Ochlodes niitakana'' Sonan, 1936 (can be "niitakanus" with suffix modified if reflect masculine gender agreement) *'' Ochlodes ochracea'' Bremer 1861 Amur, Southeast China, Japan *'' Ochlodes parvus'' Kurentzov 1970 Mongolia *'' Ochlodes pasca'' Evans 1949 Khasi Hills, Assam, Sikkim *'' Ochlodes sagitta'' Hemming 1934 *'' Ochlodes samenta'' Dyar 1914 Mexico *'' Ochlodes similis'' Leech 1893 China *'' Ochlodes siva'' Moore 1878 Khasi Hills *'' Ochlodes snowi'' (WH Edwards 1877) *'' Ochlodes subhyalina'' Bremer & Grey 1853 China, Mongolia Korea, Japan, India, Khasi Hills, Assam, Sikkim, North Burma, Taiwan *''

Ochlodes sylvanoides ''Ochlodes sylvanoides'', the woodland skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in North America from British Columbia south to southern California, east to Montana, Colorado and Arizona. Description Uppersides of wings a ...

'' (Boisduval 1852) – woodland skipper **''Ochlodes sylvanoides napa'' (WH Edwards 1865) – Napa skipper *'' Ochlodes sylvanus'' Esper 1778 – large skipper *'' Ochlodes thibetana'' Oberthuer 1886 Sichuan, Tibet Autonomous Region, Yunnan *'' Ochlodes venata'' Bremer & Grey 1853 *'' Ochlodes yuma'' (WH Edwards 1873) – Yuma skipper or giant-reed skipper – California

References and external links

Systematic list of the butterflies of NorwayCanadian Biodiversity Information Facility
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University of Colorado Museum Images representing ''Ochlodes''
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Hesperiidae genera Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder Taxa described in 1872 {{Hesperiini-stub