Carterocephalus

Taxobox
name = "Carterocephalus"

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = Chequered Skipper
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Heteropterinae
genus = "Carterocephalus"
genus_authority =Lederer, 1852
subdivision_ranks = "Carterocephalus" Species & subspecies
subdivision = See text

"Carterocephalus" is a genus in the Skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae.

Examples of Carterocephalus species and subspecies:

*"Carterocephalus alcinus" (Evans 1939)
*"Carterocephalus argyrostigma" (Eversmann 1851)
*"Carterocephalus avanti" - Orange and Silver Mountain Hopper
*"Carterocephalus canopunctatus" (Nabokov 1941)
*"Carterocephalus dieckmanni" (Graesser 1888)
*"Carterocephalus palaemon" (Pallas 1771) - Chequered Skipper
*"Carterocephalus silvicola" (Meigen 1829) - Northern Chequered Skipper
*"Carterocephalus silvicolus"
**"Carterocephalus silvicolus ssp malaisei"
**"Carterocephalus silvicolus ssp trybomi"
**"Carterocephalus silvicolus ssp virilis" Nordstrom

References and external links

* [http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/korgor/hesp1.htm Hesperiidae of Asian Russia, from Korshunov & Gorbunov (1995)]
* [http://www2.nrm.se/en/lep_nrm/s/leps.html Lepidoptera page] from the Department of Entomology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
* [http://www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/sagarmat.html Natural World Heritage Protected Areas Programme]