Pyrgus is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the grizzled skippers. The name "checkered" or "chequered skipper" may also be applied to some species, but also refers to species in the genera Burnsius and Carterocephalus. They occur in the Holarctic with an additional group of species extending to the Neotropic.
Carterocephalus silvicola, the northern chequered skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in northern Europe and the northern and eastern Palearctic.
Coladenia is an Oriental genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae. They are found throughout most of Southern, Southeastern, and Eastern Asia.
Halpe is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Lobocla is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae subfamily Eudaminae, within which they are placed in subtribe Loboclina. Unlike the rest of the Eudaminae, which have a New World distribution, the genus is endemic to Asia.
Muschampia is a Palearctic genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Pseudocoladenia is an Indomalayan genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Sovia is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. The species are found in the Indomalayan realm The genus was erected by William Harry Evans in 1949
Melanargia is a genus of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae and the subfamily Satyrinae.
Neope is a genus of butterflies of the family Nymphalidae found in Asia.
Carterocephalus palaemon, the chequered skipper or arctic skipper, not to be confused with the large chequered skipper, is a species of woodland butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. This butterfly can live in grasslands. The upperside of the butterfly is brown with orange spots and on its underside the chequered skipper is orange with brown spots. Chequered skippers are found in Great Britain and other European regions, but seen locally in Japan and in North America. The size of the chequered skipper ranges from 19 to 32 mm with females being larger. In the 1970s, the chequered skipper went extinct in England due to the new management of the woodlands.
