Ampittia

Ampittia
Ampittia dioscorides etura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Aeromachini Tutt, 1906
Genus:	Ampittia Moore, 1882
Species
10, see text [1]

Ampittia is the genus of bush hoppers in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. It is the only member of the tribe Ampittiini.

Species

• Ampittia capenas (Hewitson, 1868) – African bush hopper
• Ampittia dioscorides (Fabricius, 1793) – (common) bush hopper
• Ampittia kilombero T.B. Larsen & Congdon, 2012
• Ampittia maroides de Nicéville, [1896]
• Ampittia parva Aurivillius, 1925
• Ampittia sichunanensis Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002
• Ampittia trimacula (Leech, 1891)
• Ampittia tristella Shou, Chou & Li, 2006
• Ampittia virgata (Leech, 1890)
  • Ampittia virgata miyakeiMatsumura, 1910

For Ampittia dalailama (Mabille, 1876) & Ampittia nanus (Leech, 1890) see Aeromachus , after Huang et al. 2019.

References

1. Ampittia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Further reading

• Huang, Z.F.et al. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology, 44: 163–178.
• Larsen, T.B. & Congdon, T.C.E. (2012). The genus Ampittia in Africa with the description of a new species (Hesperiinae; Aeromachini) and three new species in the genera Andronymus and Chondrolepis (Hesperiinae, incertae sedis) (Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). Zootaxa, 3322: 49-62.
• Wang, Z.-G. & Niu, Y., (2002). New species of butterflies (Lepidoptera) from China, II. Entomotaxonomia2002 (4): 276-284.

External links

Media related to Ampittia at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Ampittia at Wikispecies

• Images representing Ampitia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life