Thymelicus

Thymelicus
Male small skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Thymelini
Genus:	Thymelicus Hubner, 1819
Species
See text
Synonyms
Adopoea Billberg, 1820 Pelion Kirby, 1858 Doricha Moore, 1883

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)
• Thymelicus alaica - (Filipjev, 1931)
• ?Thymelicus christi (Rebel, 1894) - uncertain taxonomic status
• Thymelicus flavus
• Thymelicus hamza - (Oberthür, 1876)
• Thymelicus hyrax - (Lederer, 1861)
• Thymelicus leonina (Butler, 1878)
• Thymelicus lineola - (Essex skipper)-(Ochsenheimer, 1808)
• Thymelicus nervulata
• Thymelicus novus - (Reverdin, 1916)
• Thymelicus stigma - 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