Virga | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Subtribe: | Moncina |
Genus: | Virga Evans, [1955] |
Virga is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Recognised species in the genus Virga include:
Gomalia is a monotypic genus of hesperiid butterfly. Gomalia elma, the marbled skipper or African marbled skipper, is found in Africa and parts of Asia.
Celaenorrhinus is a genus of skipper butterflies which are commonly termed sprites. An alternate name is flats, for their habit of holding their wings flat when resting, but this is also used for related genera. They belong to the spread-winged skipper subfamily (Pyrginae), and therein are the type genus of tribe Celaenorrhinini.
The Hesperiini or branded grass skippers are a tribe in the Hesperiinae subfamily of skipper butterflies. They are known as branded grass skippers because all the males in this tribe feature a black diagonal brand of scales on their forewings that exude pheromones to attract females.
Hasora khoda, the large banded awl, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in India, parts of Southeast Asia and Australia.
Choaspes plateni, the branded awlking, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae which is found in Asia. Known food plants include Meliosma (Meliosmaceae) and Pometia (Sapindaceae)
Choaspes xanthopogon, the similar awlking, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Capila pieridoides, the white dawnfly, is a species of hesperid butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia.
Dalla is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Heliopetes is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.
Iliana is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It was described in 1937 by Ernest Layton Bell, with Iliana romulus as type species. The genus has a neotropical distribution.
Moeris is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Paratrytone is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Piruna is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Thespieus is a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.
Tactusa is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Michael Fibiger in 2010.
The Erionotini are a tribe of skipper butterflies in the subfamily Hesperiinae.
Caenides dacela, the common recluse, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. All members of Caenides are within the geographical range that stretches from the Basse Casamance in Senegal to Uganda and Kenya, but generally does not penetrate much south of the Equator. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania and northern Zambia. Amongst the genus Caenides, Caenides dacela is the most common and most widely distributed. The habitat consists of forests.
Moncina is a subtribe of butterflies in the skipper subfamily Hesperiinae.