Ampittia
Ampittia | |
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Ampittia dioscorides etura | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Subfamily: | Hesperiinae |
Tribe: | Aeromachini Tutt, 1906 |
Genus: | Ampittia Moore, 1882 |
Species | |
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Ampittia is the genus of bush hoppers in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. It is the only member of the tribe Ampittiini, but many skipper butterflies are yet to be assigned to tribes, so this might change eventually.
Species
- Ampittia capenas (Hewitson, 1868) – African bush hopper
- Ampittia dalailama (Mabille, 1876)
- Ampittia dioscorides (Fabricius, 1793) – (common) bush hopper
- Ampittia kilombero T.B. Larsen & Congdon, 2012
- Ampittia maroides de Nicéville, [1896]
- Ampittia nanus (Leech, 1890)
- Ampittia parva Aurivillius, 1925
- Ampittia sichunanensis Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002
- Ampittia trimacula (Leech, 1891)
- Ampittia tristella Shou, Chou & Li, 2006
- Ampittia virgata (Leech, 1890)
- Ampittia virgata miyakei Matsumura, 1910
References
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- Larsen, T.B.; Congdon, T.C.E., 2012: The genus Ampittia in Africa with the description of a new species (Hesperiinae; Aeromachini) and three new species in the genera Andronymus and Chondrolepis (Hesperiinae, incertae sedis) (Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). Zootaxa, 3322: 49-62.
- Wang, Z.-G. & Y. Niu, 2002: New species of butterflies (Lepidoptera) from China, II. Entomotaxonomia 2002 (4): 276-284.
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