Chaetocneme

Chaetocneme
Chaetocneme
Chaetocneme denitza
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Pyrginae
Tribe: Tagiadini
Genus: Chaetocneme
Felder, 1860
Type species
Chaetocneme corvus
Felder, 1860
Species

Several, see text

Chaetocneme is genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae). It belongs to the tribe Tagiadini of subfamily Pyrginae.

The genus was established in 1860 with "Chaetocneme corvus" – then newly-described as it was believed – as the type species. However, the same species was already described by Pieter Cramer in 1775 under the name "Papilio helirius". Thus, the type species is nowadays called Chaetocneme helirius.

Selected species

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