Tribe Heteropterini Aurivillius, 1925
       
Synonyms  
[ORIG] Heteropterinae Aurivillius, 1925. In: Seitz, Gross-Schmet. Erde 13: 506546.  
    TG: Heteropterus Duméril, 1806.  
[JS] Carterocephalini Orfila, 1949. Acta Zool. Lilloana 8: 584.  
    TG: Carterocephalus Lederer, 1853.  

Notes  
(1) List of the genus found in the Western Palearctic: Heteropterus Duméril, 1806 ; Carterocephalus Lederer, 1853.  
(2) List of the genus not found in the Western Palearctic: Leptalina Mabille, 1904 ; Pulchroptera Hou, Fan & Chiba, 2021 ; …  

Bibliography  
Aurivillius C. 1925.
9. Familie: Hesperidae. In: Seitz, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. 13. Band, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter. Text-Band. Stuttgart [Germany]: Alfred Kernen (Ed.). pp. 505-588. (url)
 
  New taxon: Heteropterinae.  
       
Orfila R. N. 1949.
Notas sistemáticas sobre Lepidoptera Rhopalocera.
Acta Zoológica Lilloana 8: 583-586. (url not available)
 
  New taxon: Carterocephalini.  

Reference publications  
Chiba H., Bozano G. C. & Fan X. 2023.
Guide to the Butterflies of the palearctic region. Hesperiidae, part 1: Subfam. Coeliadinae & Heteropterinae. Milano: Omnes Artes (Ed.). pp. 1-71, fig. (url not available).
 
       
Toussaint E. F. A., Breinholt J. W., Earl C., Warren A. D., Brower A. V. Z., Yago M., Dexter K. M., Espeland M., Pierce N. E., Lohman D. J. & Kawahara A. Y. 2018.
Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 18(101): 1-11, fig. (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1216-z)
 
       
Toussaint E. F. A, Ellis E. A., Gott R. J., Warren A. D., Dexter K. M., Storer C., Lohman D. J. &Kawahara A. Y. 2021.
Historical biogeography of Heteropterinae skippers via Beringian and post-Tethyan corridors.
Zoologica Scripta 50(1): 100-111, fig. (https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12457)
 
       
Warren A. D., Ogawa J. R. & Brower A. V. Z. 2009.
Revised classification of the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea) based on combined molecular and morphological data.
Systematic Entomology 34: 467–523, fig. (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00463.x)
 
       
Archives of Western Palearctic Lepidoptera
Editors-in-Chief: Michel Taymans & Sylvain Cuvelier