Celaenorrhinini

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

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

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

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

• Alenia
• Aurivittia[2]
• Apallaga
• Celaenorrhinus – sprites, "flats" (paraphyletic)
• Kobelana[3]
• Eretis – "elves"
• Sarangesa – "elfins" (formerly often in Tagiadini)
• Scopulifera Libert, 2014[4] - Africa
• Pseudocoladenia (formerly often in Tagiadini)

Footnotes

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.
4. GBIF: genus Scopulifera Libert, 2014 (retrieved 9 January 2025)

References

Media related to Celaenorrhinini at Wikimedia Commons

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