Hesperiidae

Pelopidas sp.

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Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Insecta 
Ordo : Lepidoptera 
Rhopalocera 
Superfamilia : Hesperioidea 
Familia : Hesperiidae 
Latreille, 1809

   

Species typica

Hesperia comma Linnaeus, 1758

Lamina ex Biologia Centrali-Americana Pyrginas (tres, dextra et media, atras et brunneas) et Eudaminas (alias) monstrat.

Signeta flammeata (Trapezitinae).

Euschemon rafflesia, distinctiora hesperiida, Euschemoninas, suam subfamiliam, constituit.

Hesperiidae sunt papiliones superfamiliae Hesperioideorum, quorum habitus inconstanter provolare est. Sunt plus quam 3500 specierum agnitarum, quae omnem per orbem terrarum, sed pervarie in neotropicis Mesoamericae et Americae Australis regionibus, habitant.

Subfamiliae

Species nunc in subfamilias insequentis digeruntur.

• Coeliadinae (circa 75 species)
• Euschemoninae (monotypicae)
• Eudaminae
• Pyrginae circa 1000 species, inter quas Pyrrhopyginae (150 species)
• Heteropterinae (circa 150 species)
• Hesperiinae (plus quam 2000 specierum)
  • Nastra julia
• Megathyminae (circa 18 species; fortasse ab Hesperiinis non distinctae)
• Trapezitinae (circa 60 species)

Inter Hesperiinas est genus Mnaseas.

Bibliographia

• Ackery, P. R., R. de Jong, et R. I. Vane-Wright. 1999. The Butterflies: Hedyloidea, Hesperioidea and Papilionoidae. In Handbook of Zoology: A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom: Volume IV: Arthropoda: Insecta, Part 35: Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies: Vol. 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography, ed. N. P. Kristensen, 263–300. Berolini et Novi Eboraci: Walter de Gruyter.
• Brower, Andrew V. Z., et Andrew Warren. 2006. The higher classification of the Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea). Commentarius.
• Brower, Andrew V. Z., et Andrew Warren. 2008. Tree of Life Web Project. Hesperiidae. Editio 7 Aprilis.
• Glassberg, Jeffrey. 2001. Butterflies through Binoculars, The West.
• Guppy, Crispin S., et Jon H. Shepard. 2001. Butterflies of British Columbia.
• James, David G., et David Nunnallee. 2011. Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies.
• Pelham, Jonathan. 2008. Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada.
• Pyle, Robert Michael. 2002. The Butterflies of Cascadia.
• Watson, E. Y. 1891. Hesperiidae Indicae: Being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon.

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Hesperiidas spectant.

Vide "Hesperiidas" apud Vicispecies.

• Hesperiidae, lepidoptera.pro
• Hesperiidae Europae, www.lepidoptera.eu
• Nearctica Americae Septentrionalis. www.nearctica.com.
• Skippers of North America: Large format diagnostic photographs, Cirrus Digital Imaging.
• Butterflies and Moths of North America.
• Butterflies of America.