Thymelicus
| Thymelicus | |
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| Male small skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Thymelini |
| Genus: | Thymelicus Hubner, 1819 |
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Thymelicus is a Palearctic genus in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. The genus is the only member of the tribe Thymelini, but many skipper butterflies are yet to be assigned to tribes, so this might change eventually.
Species[]
- Thymelicus acteon (Lulworth skipper) - (Rottemburg, 1775)
- - (Filipjev, 1931)
- ? (Rebel, 1894) - uncertain taxonomic status
- Thymelicus hamza - (Oberthür, 1876)
- Thymelicus hyrax - (Lederer, 1861)
- Thymelicus leonina (Butler, 1878)
- Thymelicus lineola - (Essex skipper)-(Ochsenheimer, 1808)
- - (Reverdin, 1916)
- - Staudinger, 1886
- Thymelicus sylvatica - (Bremer, 1861)
- Thymelicus sylvestris (small skipper) - (Poda, 1761)
References and external links[]
- Hesperiidae page from FaunaItalia
- Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Preliminary species list. Version of 2006-DEC-31. Retrieved 2007-MAY-28.
- Thymelicus page from Russian-insects.com
- Images representing Thymelicus at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Thymelicus Fuller distribution
Media related to Thymelicus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Thymelicus at Wikispecies
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