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Hesperiidae (skipper)

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Hesperiidae

Taxonomy
Hesperiidae was named by Leach (1815). It is extant. Its type is Hesperia.

It was assigned to Ditrysia by Carpenter (1992); and to Papilionoidea by van Nieukerken et al. (2011), Sohn et al. (2012) and de Jong (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1815Hesperiidae Leach p. 128
1992Hesperiidae Carpenter
2011Hesperiidae van Nieukerken et al. p. 216
2012Hesperiidae Sohn et al. p. 61
2017Hesperiidae de Jong p. 15

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
RankNameAuthor
—Metamphiesmenoptera
—Euamphiesmenoptera
—Panendymenoptera
—Endymenoptera
—Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
—Angiospermivora
suborderGlossata()
—CoelolepidaNielsen and Kristensen 1996
infraorderHeteroneuraTillyard 1918
—EulepidopteraKiriakoff 1948
—Euheteroneura
—DitrysiaBorner 1925
—ApoditrysiaMinet 1983
—ObtectomeraMinet 1986
superfamilyPapilionoidea
familyHesperiidae
familyHesperiidae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Hesperiidae Leach 1815 [skipper]
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Subfm. Coeliadinae Evans 1937
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G. Burara Swinhoe 1893
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Invalid names: Ismene De Jong 1983 [replaced]
G. †Protocoeliades De Jong 2016
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Subfm. Hesperiinae Leach 1815
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Tr. Hesperiini Leach 1815
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G. Hesperia Fabricius 1893
G. Matapa Moore 1881
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Matapa aria Moore 1866
Matapa celsina Felder 1867
Matapa cresta Evans 1949
Matapa druna Moore 1866
Matapa intermedia De Jong 1983
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Matapa sasivarna Moore 1866
G. †Pamphilites Scudder 1875
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†Pamphilites abdita Scudder 1875
G. †Thanatites Scudder 1875
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†Thanatites vetula Von Heyden 1859
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Chattian or 56.00000 to 23.03000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Denmark Protocoeliades kristenseni (181387)
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Vanessa vetula (123945)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Pamphilites abdita (122487)