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
Type: Hesperia
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