The Celaenorrhinini are a tribe of spread-winged skippers in the skipper butterfly subfamily Tagiadinae.

Celaenorrhinini
Common small flat (Sarangesa dasahara)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Tagiadinae
Tribe: Celaenorrhinini
Swinhoe, 1912
Diversity
8 genera

These skippers are mainly found in tropical Africa. A few are found in Asia, and some species presently placed in the (paraphyletic) type genus Celaenorrhinus are found in the Neotropics.

Genera

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The following genera – listed in the presumed phylogenetic sequence – are placed in the Celaenorrhinini:[1]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Brower (2009)
  2. ^ Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Brockmann, Ernst; Grishin, Nick V. (2019-07-08). "Three new subfamilies of skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae)". ZooKeys (861): 91–105. Bibcode:2019ZooK..861...91Z. doi:10.3897/zookeys.861.34686. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6629708. PMID 31333327.
  3. ^ Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2022-03-14). "Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 2022 (921). PMC 8975183. PMID 35370352.

References

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  Media related to Celaenorrhinini at Wikimedia Commons

  • Brower, Andrew V.Z. (2009): Tree of Life Web ProjectCelaenorrhini. Version of 2009-JUN-14. Retrieved 2009-DEC-24.