Skipper (butterfly) genera

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Spialia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae, which are mainly found in Africa and Asia. They are commonly called grizzled skippers or sandmen.

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Euschemon is a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Euschemon rafflesia, commonly known as the regent skipper and is found in Australia.

thumb|Carcharodus tripolina, false mallow skipper, Portugal Carcharodus is a Palearctic genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Hasora, the awls, are a genus of skipper butterflies. Hasora species are found in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. There are cryptic species in this genus.Genitalia analysis is the only reliable method for identification as many species are externally almost identical.

Epargyreus is a genus of skipper butterflies in the subfamily Eudaminae. Several species in this genus are known as silverdrops. The species are found in the Nearctic and Neotropical realms.

Lobocla is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae subfamily Eudaminae, within which they are placed in subtribe Loboclina. Unlike the rest of the Eudaminae, which have a New World distribution, the genus is endemic to Asia.

Augiades is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Entheini.

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Phanus is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Entheini.

Typhedanus is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae).

Pyrgus is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the grizzled skippers. The name "checkered" or "chequered skipper" may also be applied to some species, but also refers to species in the genera Burnsius and Carterocephalus. They occur in the Holarctic with an additional group of species extending to the Neotropic.

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Astraptes, commonly known as the flasher butterflies, is a genus of skipper butterflies in the subfamily Eudaminae. They are found in the Nearctic and Neotropical ecozones.

thumb | right | Cogia cajeta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) Cogia is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae).

Drephalys is a Neotropical butterfly genus in the family Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Entheini.

Hyalothyrus is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Entheini.

Carterocephalus is a Holarctic genus of skipperlings in the skipper family, Hesperiidae.

Celaenorrhinus is a genus of skipper butterflies which are commonly termed sprites. An alternate name is flats, for their habit of holding their wings flat when resting, but this is also used for related genera. They are the type genus of tribe Celaenorrhinini.

thumb|Common hottentot skipper on garden Heliotropium; anterior aspect Gegenes is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Thymelicus is a Palearctic genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

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Ochlodes is a Holarctic genus in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. The genus is placed in the tribe Hesperiini.

Pyrrhopyge is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae. left|thumb|230px|Pyrrhopyge in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World This genus comprises very numerous, partly extremely similar species which are difficult to separate and perhaps neither are separable as distinct species. Nearly all are large, strong animals with black body and wings, often with a bronze-green or deep blue lustre, often spotted red on the head and abdomen. On the broad, mostly pointed forewings the discoidal runs very obliquely, the upper median vein rising somewhat behind the middle of the ce

Coeliades is a genus of large skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae) found in Subsaharan Africa. They are commonly known as policemen.

Entheus is a Neotropical genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in the tribe Entheini of which it is the type genus.

Bibasis, the awlets, are a genus of mostly-diurnal skipper butterflies. The genus is confined to the Indomalayan realm. Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species (B. aquilina, B. iluska, B. sena), the remainder having been removed to Burara. Hideyuki Chiba's 2009 revision of subfamily Coeliadinae retained those three and added B. mahintha as a fourth species.

Badamia is an Indoaustralian genus of skipper butterflies containing two species. The larvae feed on Terminalia (Combretaceae).

Jemadia is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae.

Sovia is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. The species are found in the Indomalayan realm The genus was erected by William Harry Evans in 1949

Chioides is a mainly Neotropical genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae)

Aeromachus is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. The species are known by the common name of scrub hoppers. They are found in the eastern Palearctic and the Indomalayan realm.

Phocides is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini, of which it is the namesake genus.

Borbo is a genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae). They belong to the tribe Baorini, and as such are among those skippers commonly known as swifts.

Sarangesa is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. Most of the species in the genus are found in the Afrotropical realm, while a few are in the Indomalayan realm.

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Mysoria is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae.

Abraximorpha is a small South Asian genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Ocybadistes is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Parnara is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae, the skippers. They are native to Asia, Africa and Australia.

Pellicia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Cephise is a Neotropical genus of skipper butterflies of the subfamily Eudaminae, within which it is placed in subtribe Cephisina.

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Wallengrenia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Mylon is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Muschampia is a Palearctic genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Bungalotis is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Hesperiidae (Eudaminae), in which they are placed to genus Phocidini.

Elbella is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae.

Pachyneuria is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae found from Mexico to South America.

Udranomia is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Entheini. It was established in 1870 by Arthur Gardiner Butler.

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Xispia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Polytremis is a mainly Chinese genus of grass skipper in the family Hesperiidae.

Sarmientoia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae, in which they are placed to tribe Phocidini.

Calleagris is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Metardaris is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae. The genus is monotypic containing the single species Metardaris cosinga, present in Bolivia and Peru. M. cosingas larvae are considered a delicacy, and are known as Huaytampo' to the people of Peru.

Oxynetra is a genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae.

Gangara is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

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