List of butterflies of China (Hesperiidae)

Bibasis amara

This is a list of the butterflies of China belonging to the family Hesperiidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full list of butterflies of China. 365 species or subspecies of Hesperiidae are recorded from China.^[1] ^[2]

Hesperiidae[]

genus: Abraximorpha

(Mabille, 1876)

A. d. davidii Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui

Evans, 1949 Yunnan
Liu & Gu, 1994 Liu & Gu, 199
Mell, 1922 Hainan

genus: Aeromachus

Leech, 1894 Sichuan, Yunnan
Aeromachus stigmata (Moore, 1878) Yunnan

A. s. obsoleta (Moore, 1878)

Huang, 2003 Tibet
Aeromachus dubius Elwes & Edwards, 1897 Hainan, Yunnan
Lee, 1962 Yunnan
Aeromachus inachus (Menetries, 1859) Amur
Aeromachus kali De Niceville, 1895
(Mabille, 1879)

A.c. catocyanea

A.c. amplifascia Huang, 2003 Yunnan

A.c. curvifascia Huang, 2003 Yunnan

tali Evans, 1932

genus: Ampittia

Ampittia trimacula (Leech, 1891) West China
Ampittia dioscorides (Fabricius, 1793)

A. d. etura (Mabille, 1891 Yunnan

Ampittia virgata (Leech, 1890)
Ampittia nanus (Leech, 1890) Ningpo
Ampittia dalailama (Mabille, 1876) West China, Tibet
Ampittia sichunanensis Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002

genus: Arnetta

Arnetta atkinsoni (Moore, 1878)

genus: Astictopterus

Astictopterus jama C. & R. Felder, 1860

genus: Badamia

(Fabricius, 1775)

genus: Baoris

Baoris farri (Moore, 1878)
(Elwes & Edwards, 1897)

genus: Barca

Barca bicolor (Oberthür, 1896)

genus: Bibasis

Bibasis gomata lara (Leech, 1894) Yunnan
Bibasis sena uniformis Elwes & Edwards, 1897 Hainan
Bibasis amara (Moore, [1866]) Yunnan
Bibasis aquilina (Speyer, 1879) South China
(Hewitson, 1867) West China
Lee, 1962 Yunnan

genus: Burara

Burara amara (Moore, [1866])

genus: Caltoris

(Leech, 1894) Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sundas, Borneo, Palawan, Philippines
Caltoris cahira (Moore, 1877)

C. c. carina (Evans, 1937) Yunnan

C. c. austeni (Moore, [1884])

Koiwaiya, 1996 China
(Evans, 1926) Tibet
(de Nicéville, [1884]) India to Malaya, Java, China.

genus: Carcharodus

Carcharodus flocciferus (Zeller, 1847) Xinjiang

genus: Carterocephalus

Carterocephalus silvicola (Meigen, 1829) Amurland
Carterocephalus palaemon (Pallas, 1771)
Carterocephalus argyrostigma Eversmann, 1851 North-east China
Carterocephalus dieckmanni Graeser, 1888
Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 Tibet
Evans, 1939 Yunnan
Lee, 1962 Yunnan
(de Nicéville, 1886) Tibet, West China
Oberthür, 1886 Tibet, West China
Oberthür, 1886

C. h. shoka Evans, 1915 Tibet, West China

C. h. jiuzaikouensis Yoshino, 2001 Sichuan

C. h. zorgensis Yoshino, 2003 Sichuan

Oberthür, 1891 China
Oberthür, 1886 Tibet, West China
Leech, 1891) Tibet, West China
Oberthür, 1886 Tibet
Yoshino, 1997 Yunnan

genus: Celaenorrhinus

Devyatkin, 1998 Yunnan
Celaenorrhinus aspersa Leech, 1891
Celaenorrhinus nigricans nigricans (de Niceville, 1885)
affinis Elwes & Edwards, 1897
Celaenorrhinus consanguinea consanguinea Leech, 1891
Celaenorrhinus patula de Nicéville, 1889
nujiangensis Huang, 2001
Mabille, 1876

genus: Cephrenes

Cephrenes acalle Hopffer, 1874

genus: Choaspes

Choaspes benjaminii japonica (Murray, 1875) Northwest Yunnan
Evans, 1932 Hainan
Choaspes plateni stigmata Evans, 1932 Hainan
Choaspes xanthopogon (Kollar, [1844]) West China

genus: Coladenia

Coladenia agni (de Nicéville, [1884]) Hainan
Elwes & Edwards, 1897 southern China
Coladenia buchananii (de Nicéville, 1889) (de Nicéville, [1889])
Coladenia laxmi sobrina Elwes & Edwards, 1897 Hainan
Coladenia maeniata Oberthür, 1896 Yunnan, China
H. Huang, 2003 Yunnan

genus: Ctenoptilum

(Moore, [1866])

genus: Daimio

Daimio tethys (Menetries, 1857) Amurland, Ussuri

D. t. birmana Evans, 1926 Yunnan

genus: Erionota

Erionota thrax (Linnaeus, 1767)
Erionota torus Evans, 1941
(Leech, 1890) West China

genus: Erynnis

Erynnis montanus (Bremer, 1861)
Erynnis tages (Linnaeus, 1758)
Erynnis popoviana Nordmann, 1851
(Leech, 1891) West China

genus: Gerosis

Gerosis phisara (Moore, 1884)

G. p. rex ( Evans, 1949) Yunnan

(C. & R. Felder, 1862) South and Central China, Yunnan

G. S. narada (Moore, 1884) Yunnan

Huang, 2003 Yunnan

genus: Halpe

Swinhoe, 1893 Tibet
Huang, 2002 Jiu-Hua Shan, Min-Yuan Bamboo Forest.
Evans, 1937 China, Formosa
Evans, 1949 Yunnan
Evans, 1937 Yunnan
Elwes & Edwards, 1897 Tibet
Yunnan

H. k. micromacula (H. Huang, 2003) Dulong valley, NW. Yunnan

Huang, 2003 Yunnan
Evans, 1949 Tibet
Huang, 1999 Yunnan
Leech, 1893 Sichuan,
(Plötz, 1886 Yunnan
Huang, 2003
Devyatkin, 2002 Hong Kong
Halpe porus (Mabille, 1877) West China, Hong Kong, Hainan
Halpe zema (Hewitson, 1877) Yunnan

genus: Hasora

Hasora anura (de Niceville, 1889) Yunnan

H. A. china Evans, 1949

Hasora badra ( Moore, 1857) West China
Hasora chromus (Cramer, 1782) South China
Evans, 1949 West China
Hasora vitta indica Evans, 1932

genus: Hesperia

Hesperia comma mixta Alphéraky, 1881 Tian-Shan
Hesperia florinda (Butler, 1878) Amurland, Ussuri

genus: Heteropterus

Heteropterus morpheus (Pallas, 1771) Amurland

genus: Hyarotis

Hyarotis adrastus (Cramer, 1780)

genus: Idmon

Idmon bicolora Fan, X.L & Wang, M., 2007
Idmon flavata Fan, X.L & Wang, M., 2007
Idmon fujianana (Chou & Huang, 1994)
Idmon sinica (H. Huang, 1997)

genus: Isoteinon

Isoteinon lamprospilus C. & R. Felder,

genus: Leptalina

Leptalina unicolor (Bremer & Grey, 1853) East China, Amurland

genus: Lobocla

Lobocla liliana (Atkinson, 1871) Yunnan
(Bremer & Grey, 1853) China
(Leech, 1891) West China
(Oberthür, 1886) China
(Leech, 1893)
(Leech, 1891) West China, Tibet
(Oberthür, 1886) West China

genus: Lotongus

(de Nicéville, 1889)

L. s. chinensis Evans, 193 Szechwan

L. s. quinquepunctus Joicey & Talbot, 1921 Hainan

genus: Matapa

genus: Muschampia

(Speyer, 1879) West China
(Staudinger, 1886) Tian-Shan
(Grum-Grshimailo, 1887) Tian-Shan
(Grum-Grshimailo, 1893) Tian-Shan
Muschampia protheon (Rambur, 1858) Central China
Muschampia gigas (Bremer, 1864) East China, Amurland
Muschampia cribrellum (Eversmann, 1841) Amurland
(Speyer, 1879) Tian-Shan, Tibet

genus: Notocrypta

(Staudinger, 1889)

N. c. clavata

N. c. theba Evans, 1949 South Yunnan

Notocrypta paralysos asawa Fruhstorfer, 1911 Hainan
Notocrypta curvifascia (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
Notocrypta feisthamelii

N. f. rectifasciata Leech West China

N. f. alysosMoore, 1865

Gallo, E. & Bozano, G.C. 2017

genus: Ochlodes

Ochlodes sylvanus (Esper, 1777)
Ochlodes venata (Bremer & Grey, 1853) Amurland to Southeast China
Ochlodes ochracea (Bremer, 1861) Amurland to Southeast China
Ochlodes subhyalina (Bremer & Grey, 1853)
(Oberthür, 1886) Tibet
(Mabille, 1876) China
Evans 1939

genus: Ochus

Ochus subvittatus Moore, 1878

genus: Odontoptilum

Odontoptilum angulata angulata (C. Felder, 1862)

genus: Onryza

(Leech, 1890) China
Onryza meiktila (de Nicéville, 1891)
Hering, 1918 China

genus: Oriens

Oriens goloides (Moore, [1881]) South China
Oriens gola (Moore, 1877)

genus: Parnara

Parnara guttatus Bremer & Grey, 1853

P. g. guttatus (Bremer & Grey, 1853 North China

P. g. mangala (Moore, [1865]) South China

Evans, 1949 South-east China
hulsei Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 1999 South Yunnan

genus: Pelopidas

Pelopidas jansonis (Butler, 1878)
Pelopidas mathias (Fabricius, 1798)
(Mabille, 1877)
Yuan , Zhang & Yuan, 2010

genus: Pithauria

genus: Polytremis

Polytremis lubricans (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) Tibet, Yunnan
Chou & Zhou, 1994 Guangxi
Huang, 1994 Fujian
Polytremis discreta (Elwes & Edwards, 1897)
(Moore, 1877) Shanghai
(Sonan, 1938)
Polytremis pellucida (Murray, 1875)

P. p. quanta Evans, 1949 Guniujiang, Anhui

P. p. inexpecta Tsukiyama, Chiba & Fujioka, 1997 Zhejiang

(Evans, 1937)

P. t. theca (Evans, 1937) Sichuan, Shaanxi

P. t. fukia (Evans, 1940) Fujian, Anhui

P. t. macrotheca Huang, 2003 Yunnan

(Evans, 1932)
Tsukiyama, Chiba & Fujioka, 1997 Sichuan
(Mabille, 1876) West China
Huang, 2003 Yunnan
(Leech, [1893]) Sichuan
Sugiyama, 1999 Guangxi
Sugiyama, 1999 Sichuan
Sugiyama, 1999 Yunnan
J.Q. Zhu , Z.B. Chen & L.Z. Li, 2012

genus: Potanthus

Potanthus pseudomaesa (Moore, [1881])

P. p. pseudomaesa (Moore, [1881]) Yunnan

P. p. clio (Evans, 1932)

Potanthus palnia (Evans, 1914)

P. p. palnia (Evans, 1914) Yunnan, Hainan, Guangxi, Fujian, Tibet

phoebe (Evans, 1934) Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Fujian, Hainan

P. t. tytleri (Evans, 1914)

(Evans, 1932) South China
(Evans, 1932) Zhejiang
Potanthus confucius (C. & R. Felder, 1862)

P. c. confucius (C. & R. Felder, 1862) Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Hubei, Guangdong, Hunan

P. c. dushta (Fruhstorfer, 1911) Hainan

Evans, 1932 Tibet
Potanthus pava pava (Fruhstorfer, 1911) Fujian, Hubei
(Evans, 1934) West China
Huang, 2003 Yunnan
ajax (Evans, 1932) Yunnan
(Fruhstorfer, 1911) Yunnan, Guangxi, Hainan
Potanthus flava (Murray, 1875) Jilin, Hebei, Shandong, Hunan, Fujian, Yunnan
(Evans, 1934)

P. n. nesta (Evans, 1934) Yunnan

P. n. omeia Lee, 1962 Sichuan

Huang, 2001 Tibet
Huang, 2002 Tibet, Yunnan
Huang, 2002 Anhui, Fujian
(Elwes & Edwards, 1897)

genus: Pseudoborbo

Pseudoborbo bevani (Moore, 1878)

genus: Pseudocoladenia

Pseudocoladenia dan (Fabricius, 1787)
(Leech, 1894) South China (Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan)
(Evans, 1949) Southwest China (Yunnan, Sichuan)
(Evans, 1949) Tibet

genus: Pyrgus

Pyrgus alpinus (Erschoff, 1874) West China
Pyrgus maculatus thibetanus (Oberthür, 1891) West China
Pyrgus malvae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pyrgus alveus (Hübner, 1802)
Pyrgus serratulae (Rambur, 1839) China
Pyrgus alveus Hübner, [1800-1803]

P. a. reverdini (Oberthür, 1912) Ta-tsien-lou, Sichuan

P. a. schansiensis Reverdin, 1915

Pyrgus speyeri (Staudinger, 1887) Amurland
(Leech, 1891) West China, Tibet
(Oberthür, 1886) West China, Tibet

genus: Sarangesa

Sarangesa dasahara (Moore, [1866])

genus: Satarupa

Satarupa nymphalis (Speyer, 1879)
Tytler, 1914 Yunnan
Oberthür, 1921 Tibet
Oberthür, 1921

genus: Scobura

(de Nicéville, [1889]) Hainan
Hering, 1918

genus: Sebastonyma

Lee, 1979

S. m. medoensis

S. m. albostriata H. Huang, 2003 Nujiang valley, N.W. Yunnan

genus: Seseria

genus: Sovia

(Mabille, 1876)

S. l. magna Evans, 1932

( Moore, 1882) Tibet
Sovia albipectus (de Nicéville, 1891)
(Leech, 1894) West Sichuan, Northwest Yunnan
(Evans, 1926)

S. g. grahami Tibet

S. g. miliaohuae Huang, 2003 Northwest Yunnan

Huang & Wu, 2003 Northwest Yunnan

genus: Spialia

Spialia galba chenga Evans, 1956 Hainan
Spialia sertorius (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) Tibet, Amurland
Spialia orbifer lugens (Staudinger, 1886) Tian-Shan

genus: Stimula

Stimula swinhoei swinhoei Elwes & Edwards, 1897

genus: Suastus

Suastus gremius (Fabricius, 1798)
Suastus minuta (Moore, 1877)

genus: Tagiades

Tagiades litigiosa Moschler, 1878 Hainan, Yunnan
Tagiades menaka (Moore, [1866]) Hainan

genus: Taractrocera

Taractrocera flavoides Leech, 1894
Taractrocera tilda Evans, 1934

genus: Telicota

Telicota colon (Fabricius, 1775)
Telicota augias (Linnaeus, 1763)
Evans, 1949
Telicota ancilla (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)

genus: Thymelicus

Thymelicus lineola (Ochsenheimer, 1808) Amurland
(Filipjev, 1931) Tian-Shan
Thymelicus leonina (Butler, 1878) South China, Amurland
Thymelicus sylvatica (Bremer, 1861) South China, Amurland
(Mabille, 1876) West China

genus: Thoressa many

(South, 1914) Southwest China

T. b. baileyi (South, 1913)

(Oberthür, 1886) West Sichuan, North Yunnan
blanchardii (Oberthür, 1886) West Sichuan
fusca (Elwes, [1893]) Southwest China Yunnan, Tibet

T.f. fusca

T.f. senna Evans, 1937

gupta (de Niceville, 1886) Sichuan, Guangdong, Yunnan

T.g. gupta

T.g. nujiangensis (H. Huang, 2003) Nujiang valley, Northwest Yunnan

Thoressa hyrie (de Niceville, 1891) Tibet
(Evans, 1940) Southeast China (Fujian, Zhejiang)
(Leech, 1893) Southwest China (Sichuan, Yunnan)
(Wang & Niu, 2002) Central China (Henan, Hubei)
Thoressa masuriensis (Moore, 1878) West China (North Yunnan, West Sichuan)

T. m. tali (Swinhoe, [1912])

T. m. cuneomaculata Murayama, 1995

(de Niceville, 1885) Southwest China, Southeast Tibet
(Evans, 1937) Sichuan, Yunnan
(Leech, 1890) West China
(Huang, 2003) Yunnan
Huang & Zhan, 2004 Guangdong, Hainan
(Huang, 2011) Central China (Shaanxi)
(Evans, 1939) North Yunnan

genus: Udaspes

genus: Zographetus

(de Nicéville, [1884]) Hainan
Fang & Wan, 2007 China (Hainan)
Eliot, 1959 China (Hainan)
Elwes & Edwards, 1897
Fan & Wang, 2007

References[]

^ Wu Chunsheng, 2010 China Checklist of Lepodoptera, In the Biodiversity Committee of Chinese Academy of Sciences ed., Catalogue of Life China: 2014 Annual Checklist, Science Press, Beijing, China
^ Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A. & Lyal, C. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/lepindex/ [accessed 6 January 2007]

Chou, Io (ed) 1994. Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium (Monograph of Chinese Butterflies). Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, Zhengzhou. (in Chinese). ISBN 7-5349-1574-0. Lists species plus new distribution records for China. New species descriptions are noted in English. Colour photographs of the species treated, with accompanying Chinese text.
Full list references.

External links[]

Catalogue of life China List provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences online
Butterflies of China at Digital moths of Japan. Includes images.
Wikispecies taxonomy additional references via species or genus
Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica

[1] Wu Chunsheng, 2010 China Checklist of Lepodoptera, In the Biodiversity Committee of Chinese Academy of Sciences ed., Catalogue of Life China: 2014 Annual Checklist, Science Press, Beijing, China

[2] Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A. & Lyal, C. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/lepindex/ [accessed 6 January 2007]

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