Family Hesperiidae Leach 1815 (skipper)

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Hesperiidae

Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172

Parent taxon: Papilionoidea according to R. de Jong 2017

See also Carpenter 1992, Sohn et al. 2012 and van Nieukerken et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Archaeolycorea, Lithopsyche, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Riodinidae, Stolopsyche

Subtaxa: Coeliadinae Hesperiinae Thanatites

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Type: Hesperia

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Oligocene of France (1 collection), Germany (1)

• Eocene of Denmark (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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