Ampittia
| Ampittia | |
|---|---|
| Ampittia dioscorides etura | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Hesperiinae |
| Tribe: | Aeromachini Tutt, 1906 |
| Genus: | Ampittia Moore, 1882 |
| Species | |
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Ampittia is the genus of bush hoppers in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. It is the only member of the tribe Ampittiini.
Species
- Ampittia capenas (Hewitson, 1868) – African bush hopper
- Ampittia dioscorides (Fabricius, 1793) – (common) bush hopper
- Ampittia kilombero T.B. Larsen & Congdon, 2012
- Ampittia maroides de Nicéville, [1896]
- Ampittia parva Aurivillius, 1925
- Ampittia sichunanensis Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002
- Ampittia trimacula (Leech, 1891)
- Ampittia tristella Shou, Chou & Li, 2006
- Ampittia virgata (Leech, 1890)
- Ampittia virgata miyakei Matsumura, 1910
For Ampittia dalailama (Mabille, 1876) & Ampittia nanus (Leech, 1890) see Aeromachus, after Huang et al. 2019.
References
Further reading
- Huang, Z.F. et al. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology, 44: 163–178.
- Larsen, T.B. & Congdon, T.C.E. (2012). The genus Ampittia in Africa with the description of a new species (Hesperiinae; Aeromachini) and three new species in the genera Andronymus and Chondrolepis (Hesperiinae, incertae sedis) (Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). Zootaxa, 3322: 49-62.
- Wang, Z.-G. & Niu, Y., (2002). New species of butterflies (Lepidoptera) from China, II. Entomotaxonomia 2002 (4): 276-284.
External links
Media related to Ampittia at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Ampittia at Wikispecies