Chaetocneme is genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.
| Chaetocneme | |
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| Chaetocneme denitza | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Netrocorynini |
| Genus: | Chaetocneme Felder, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Chaetocneme corvus Felder, 1860
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| Species | |
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Several, see text | |
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 edit
References edit
- ^ Baar, Murdoch De (April 1977). "Butterflies from an area between the Bunya Mountains and Archookoora State Forest, Queensland". Australian entomological magazine. 3 (6): 115–119.
- ^ Lane, D. A. (August 1993). "New food plant records for Chaetocneme denitza (Hewitson) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae)". The Australian Entomologist. 20 (2): 73–74.
- ^ Müller, Chris J. (1 June 2016). "A new species of Chaetocneme Felder, 1860 from Papua New Guinea (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)". Tropical Lepidoptera Research. ISSN 2575-9256.
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