Caltoris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Baorini
Genus: Caltoris
Species: C. aurociliata – C. beraka – C. boisduvalii – C. bromus – C. brunnea – C. cahira – C. chimdroa – C. confusa – C. cormasa – C. kumara – C. malaya – C. mehavagga – C. plebeia – C. philippina – C. septentrionalis – C. sirius – C. tenuis – C. tulsi

Name

Caltoris Swinhoe, 1893: 323.

Type species: Hesperia kumara Moore, 1878, by subsequent designation by Swinhoe in Moore, [1913]: 300.

Synonyms

Parnara (Milena) Evans, 1912: 1005. Sub-genus. TS: Parnara plebeia de Nicéville, 1887, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Evans, W.H. 1912. A List of Indian Butterflies (continued). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 21(3): 969–1008. BHL text. Reference page.
Hemming, A.F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1–509. Reference page.
Swinhoe, C. 1893. A List of the Lepidoptera of the Khasia Hills. Part I. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 41(3): 267–330. BHL. Reference page.
Swinhoe, C. [1913]. In Moore, Lepidoptera Indica 10, (1912-1913) Hesperiidae, 364pp., pls. 757–835. Reference page.

Additional references

Devyatkin, A.L. 2010. Taxonomic notes on Oriental Hesperiidae, 4. A key to the continental species of Baoris Moore, [1881] and Caltoris Swinhoe, 1893, based on the female genitalia. Atalanta 41: 239–244. Reference page.
Fan, X.L., Chiba, H., Huang, Z.F., Fei, W., Wang, M. & Sáfián, S. 2016. Clarification of the Phylogenetic Framework of the Tribe Baorini (Lepidoptera:Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae) Inferred from Multiple Gene Sequences. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0156861. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156861 . Reference page.
Hsu, Y-F., Xue, G-X., Lin, R-J. & Huang, L. 2019. Resurrection of Caltoris ranrunna (Sonan) from synonymy as a skipper endemic to Taiwan based on COI barcode and morphology. Zootaxa 4555(1): 56–66. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.1.4 Reference page.
Huang, H. 2011. Notes on the genera Caltoris Swinhoe, 1893 and Baoris Moore, [1881] from China (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Atalanta 42(1-4): 201–220. Reference page.
Jiang, W-B., He, H-Y., Li, Y-Y., Wang, Y., Ge, C., Zhu, J-Q. & Yu, W-D. 2019. Molecular phylogeny of the butterfly tribe Baorini Doherty, 1886 (Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae) in China. Zootaxa 4565(1): 108–116. [PDF]. Reference page.
Toussaint, E.F.A., Vila, R., Yago, M., Chiba, H., Warren, A.D., Aduse-Poku, K., Storer, C., Dexter, K.M., Maruyama, K., Lohman, D.J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2019. Out of the Orient: Post-Tethyan transoceanic and trans-Arabian routes fostered the spread of Baorini skippers in the Afrotropics. Systematic Entomology 44(4): 926–938. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12365 Reference page.