Carterocephalus is a Holarctic genus of skipperlings in the skipper family, Hesperiidae.
The wing colour is yellow, white, dark-brown and black with a variously spotted appearance. The hindwing upperside is dark with clear cut rounded lighter spots. The majority of species are endemic to China.
Species Listed alphabetically:Carterocephalus, funet.fi Carterocephalus abax Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet Carterocephalus alcinoides Lee, 1962 - Yunnan Carterocephalus alcina Evans, 1939 - Yunnan Carterocephalus argyrostigma (Eversmann, 1851) - Siberia, Mongolia and China Carterocephalus avanti (de Nicéville, 1886) – orange and silver mountain hopper – Tibet Carterocephalus canopunctatus (Nabokov 1941) Carterocephalus christophi Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 - Tibet, western China Carterocephalus dieckmanni Graesser, 1888 - China Carterocephalus flavomaculatus Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, West China Carterocephalus gemmatus Leech, 1891 Carterocephalus habaensis Yoshino, 1997 - Yunnan Carterocephalus houangty Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, western China Carterocephalus mandan Oberthür, 1891 Carterocephalus micio Oberthür, 1891 - China Carterocephalus niveomaculatus Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, West and South China Carterocephalus palaemon (Pallas, 1771) – chequered skipper Carterocephalus pulchra (Leech, 1891) - Tibet, western China Carterocephalus silvicola (Meigen, 1829) – northern chequered skipper Carterocephalus skada (W. H. Edwards, 1870) Arctic skipper, arctic skipperling
Former species Carterocephalus plancus Hopffer, 1874 - transferred to Ladda plancus (Hopffer, 1874)
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Hesperiidae of Asian Russia, from Korshunov & Gorbunov (1995) Lepidoptera page from the Department of Entomology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History Natural World Heritage Protected Areas Programme Images representing Carterocephalus at Consortium for the Barcode of Life