Ampittia

Ampittia
Ampittia dioscorides etura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Ampittiini Tutt, 1906
Genus:	Ampittia Moore, 1882
Species
10, see text[1]

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[]

• 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.

External links[]

Media related to Ampittia at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Ampittia at Wikispecies

• Images representing Ampitia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

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