Creteus

Creteus
Creteus cyrina as Parnara parca deniceville fig.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Creteus de Nicéville, 1895
Species:	C. cyrina
Binomial name
Creteus cyrina (Hewitson, 1876) [1]
Synonyms
(Genus) CyrinaHemming, 1939 (Species) Hesperia cyrinaHewitson, 1876 Cyrina cyrina

Creteus is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It contains only one species, Creteus cyrina, which is found in Asia, including India, Thailand and Brunei.It is only separable from related genera by the male stigma which consists of a scent-scale stripe along the middle third of vein 2. The single species. C. cyrina Hew. resembles’’Eetion elia’’, but is easily discernible by the position of the hyaline spots of the hindwing: one in the cell-end, two above it and two below it. In Borneo-specimens the spots seem to be generally smaller. Khasia Hills and from the Kina-Balu (Borneo). ^[2]

References

1. Creteus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database