Muschampia

Muschampia
Muschampia tessellum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Pyrginae
Tribe:	Carcharodini
Subtribe:	Carcharodina
Genus:	Muschampia Tutt, [1906]

Muschampia is a Palearctic genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae. ^[1]

Species

These species belong to the genus Muschampia: ^[2]

• Muschampia alta (Schwingenschuss, 1942) Southern Italy, Balkan Peninsula ^[3]
• Muschampia antonia (Speyer, 1879) Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, north Tibet
• Muschampia baeticus (Rambur, 1840)
• Muschampia dravira (Moore, [1875])
• Muschampia floccifera (Zeller, 1847)
• Muschampia gigas (Bremer, 1864) east China, Amur Oblast
• Muschampia kuenlunus (Grum-Grshimailo, 1893) Central Asia (Alay Mountains, west Pamirs, Tian-Shan).
• Muschampia lavatherae (Esper, 1783)
• Muschampia leuzeae (Oberthür, 1881)
• Muschampia lutulentus (Grum-Grshimailo, 1887) Syria, Mesopotamia to Central Asia, Afghanistan
• Muschampia mohammed (Oberthür, 1887)
• Muschampia musta Evans, 1949 Afghanistan
• Muschampia nobilis (Staudinger, 1882) Central Asian mountain ranges
• Muschampia nomas (Lederer, 1855) Israel
• Muschampia orientalis (Reverdin, 1913)
• Muschampia plurimacula (Christoph, 1893) Hyrcania
• Muschampia poggei (Lederer, 1858) Asia Minor, Mesopotamia to Middle East, Transcaucasia
• Muschampia prometheus (Grum-Grshimailo, 1890) Central Asian mountain ranges
• Muschampia proteides (F.Wagner,1929) Central Asia (Alai, Ghissarsky, Tian-Shan), Afghanistan
• Muschampia proteus (Staudinger, 1886)
• Muschampia protheon (Rambur, 1858) central China (Kuku-Noor), east Mongolia to Transbaikalia
• Muschampia proto Ochsenheimer, 1808 (sage skipper)
• Muschampia stauderi (Reverdin, 1913)
• Muschampia staudingeri (Speyer, 1879) northeast Iran to Pamirs, Turkmenistan, Altai, west China
• Muschampia tersa Evans, 1949 Transcaucasia, Iran, Iraq
• Muschampia tessellum (Hübner, [1800-1803]) (tesselated skipper)

See also Muschampia cribrellum (Eversmann, 1841), later as Favria cribrellum (Eversmann, 1841) after revision. ^[2]

References

1. Funet
2. Zhang, Jing; Brockmann, Ernst; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; et al. (2020). "A genomic perspective on the taxonomy of the subtribe Carcharodina (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Carcharodini)". Zootaxa. 4748 (1): 182–194. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.10 . PMC   8018707 . PMID   32230093.
3. Hinojosa, Joan C.; Dapporto, Leonardo; Brockmann, Ernst; Dincă, Vlad; Tikhonov, Valentin; Grishin, Nick; Lukhtanov, Vladimir A.; Vila, Roger (2021). "Overlooked cryptic diversity in Muschampia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) adds two species to the European butterfly fauna" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (3): 847–859. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa171.

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

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   Media related to Muschampia at Wikimedia Commons
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   Data related to Muschampia at Wikispecies
• Images representing Muschampia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life