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A dynamic checklist of the Western Palearctic butterflies hyperlinked to the original descriptions
at species, genus and family level
(Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)

  

Michel Taymans

Sylvain Cuvelier


30.xii.2025
Introduction Papilionoidea Papilionidae Hesperiidae Pieridae   Riodinidae Lycaenidae Nymphalidae Sources Thx Updates
 
   
 

Tribe Heteropterini Aurivillius, 1925

  
 
 
Synonyms
[ORIG] Heteropterinae Aurivillius, 1925. In: Seitz, Gross-Schmet. Erde 13: 506, 546.  
    TG: Heteropterus Duméril, 1806.  
[JS] Carterocephalini Orfila, 1949. Acta Zool. Lilloana 8: 584.  
    TG: Carterocephalus Lederer, 1853.  
Notes  
(1) List of the genera found in the Western Palearctic: Heteropterus Duméril, 1806 ; Carterocephalus Lederer, 1853.  
(2) List of the genera 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 systemáticas sobre Lepidoptera Rhopalocera.
Acta Zoologica Lilloana 8: 583-590. (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 2025
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