Ochlodes

Ochlodes
Female large skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subtribe:	Hesperiina
Genus:	Ochlodes Scudder, 1872
Species
Numerous; see text.[1]

Ochlodes is a Holarctic genus in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. The genus is placed in the tribe Hesperiini.

Examples of Ochlodes species:

• Ochlodes agricola Boisduval 1852 California to Oregon
• Ochlodes amurensis Mabille 1909 Amur Oblast – may be forma of Ochlodes venata (Bremer & Grey, 1853)
• Ochlodes asahinai Shirozu Japan
• Ochlodes batesi Bell 1935 Haiti
• Ochlodes bouddha Mabille 1876 China
• Ochlodes brahma Moore 1878 Northwest Himalaya
• Ochlodes crataeis Leech 1893 China
• Ochlodes flavomaculata Draeseke & Reuss
• Ochlodes formosana Matsumura 1919 Taiwan – may be subspecies of Ochlodes subhyalina (Bremer & Grey, 1853)
• Ochlodes hasegawai Chiba & Tsukiyama 1996
• Ochlodes hyrcanna Christoph 1893
• Ochlodes klapperichii Evans 1940
• Ochlodes lanta Evans 1939
• Ochlodes linga Evans 1939
• Ochlodes niitakana Sonan, 1936 (can be "niitakanus" with suffix modified if reflect masculine gender agreement)
• Ochlodes ochracea Bremer 1861 Amur, Southeast China, Japan
• Ochlodes parvus Kurentzov 1970 Mongolia
• Ochlodes pasca Evans 1949 Khasi Hills, Assam, Sikkim
• Ochlodes sagitta Hemming 1934
• Ochlodes samenta Dyar 1914 Mexico
• Ochlodes similis Leech 1893 China
• Ochlodes siva Moore 1878 Khasi Hills
• Ochlodes snowi (WH Edwards 1877)
• Ochlodes subhyalina Bremer & Grey 1853 China, Mongolia Korea, Japan, India, Khasi Hills, Assam, Sikkim, North Burma, Taiwan
• Ochlodes sylvanoides (Boisduval 1852) – woodland skipper
  • Ochlodes sylvanoides napa (WH Edwards 1865) – Napa skipper
• Ochlodes sylvanus Esper 1778 – large skipper
• Ochlodes thibetana Oberthuer 1886 Sichuan, Tibet Autonomous Region, Yunnan
• Ochlodes venata Bremer & Grey 1853
• Ochlodes yuma (WH Edwards 1873) – Yuma skipper or giant-reed skipper – California

References and external links

1. Funet

• Systematic list of the butterflies of Norway
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
• Species records from University of Colorado Museum
• Skipper news: taxonomic Hesperiinae
• Images representing Ochlodes at Consortium for the Barcode of Life