Biology:Chaetocneme

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Short description: Genus of butterflies

Chaetocneme
Chaetocneme denitza.jpg
Chaetocneme denitza
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Netrocorynini
Genus: Chaetocneme
Felder, 1860
Type species
Chaetocneme corvus
Felder, 1860
Species

Several, see text

Chaetocneme is genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

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

Wikidata ☰ Q585012 entry