| Coeliadinae | |
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| Coeliades keithloa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Coeliadinae Evans, [1937] |
| Diversity | |
| About 8 genera | |
| Synonyms | |
Rhopalocamptinae Evans, [1937] | |
Coeliadinae is a subfamily of the skipper butterfly family (Hesperiidae). With about 150 described species, this is one of several smallish skipper butterfly subfamilies. It was first proposed by William Frederick Evans in 1937. [1]
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The subfamily is restricted to the Old World tropics. It is the sister group to all other living lineages of skippers. In Coeliadinae the second segment of the palpi is erect and densely scaled, and the third segment is perpendicular to it, long, slender and without scales. [1]
