{{Short description|Genus of butterflies}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Carterocephalus_palaemon.2305.jpg | image_caption = Chequered skipper | taxon = Carterocephalus | authority =Lederer, 1852 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Carterocephalus''''' is a Holarctic genus of skipperlings in the skipper family, Hesperiidae.
The wing colour is yellow, white, dark-brown and black with a variously spotted appearance. The hindwing upperside is dark with clear cut rounded lighter spots. The majority of species are endemic to China.
==Species== Listed alphabetically:<ref>[http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/heteropterinae/carterocephalus/index.html ''Carterocephalus''], funet.fi</ref> *''Carterocephalus abax'' <small>Oberthür, 1886</small> - Tibet *''Carterocephalus alcinoides'' <small>Lee, 1962</small> - Yunnan *''Carterocephalus alcina'' <small>Evans, 1939</small> - Yunnan *''Carterocephalus argyrostigma'' <small>(Eversmann, 1851)</small> - Siberia, Mongolia and China *''Carterocephalus avanti'' <small>(de Nicéville, 1886)</small> – orange and silver mountain hopper – Tibet *''Carterocephalus canopunctatus'' <small>(Nabokov 1941)</small> *''Carterocephalus christophi'' <small>Grum-Grshimailo, 1891</small> - Tibet, western China *''Carterocephalus dieckmanni'' <small>Graesser, 1888</small> - China *''Carterocephalus flavomaculatus'' <small>Oberthür, 1886</small> - Tibet, West China *''Carterocephalus gemmatus'' <small>Leech, 1891</small><ref name="Zhang">{{Cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Jing |last2=Cong |first2=Qian |last3=Shen |first3=Jinhui |last4=Grishin |first4=Nick |date=2022-03-14 |title=Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) |url=https://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/130468 |journal=Insecta Mundi |volume=2022 |issue=921 |pmid=35370352 |pmc=8975183 |language=en}}</ref> *''Carterocephalus habaensis'' <small>Yoshino, 1997</small> - Yunnan *''Carterocephalus houangty'' <small>Oberthür, 1886</small> - Tibet, western China *''Carterocephalus mandan'' <small>Oberthür, 1891</small><ref name="Zhang" /> *''Carterocephalus micio'' <small>Oberthür, 1891</small> - China *''Carterocephalus niveomaculatus'' <small>Oberthür, 1886</small> - Tibet, West and South China *''Carterocephalus palaemon'' <small>(Pallas, 1771)</small> – chequered skipper *''Carterocephalus pulchra'' <small>(Leech, 1891)</small> - Tibet, western China *''Carterocephalus silvicola'' <small>(Meigen, 1829)</small> – northern chequered skipper *''Carterocephalus skada'' <small>(W. H. Edwards, 1870)</small> Arctic skipper, arctic skipperling
===Former species=== *''Carterocephalus plancus'' <small>Hopffer, 1874</small> - transferred to ''Ladda plancus'' <small>(Hopffer, 1874)</small>
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Hesperidae - Carterocephalus palaemon-1.JPG|''Carterocephalus palaemon'', dorsal view File:Hesperidae - Carterocephalus palaemon.JPG|''Carterocephalus palaemon'', lateral view File:Carterocephalus silvicola.JPG|''Carterocephalus silvicola'' File:Carterocephalus silvicola underside.jpg|''Carterocephalus silvicola'', lateral view </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} {{Wikispecies}} *[http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/korgor/hesp1.htm Hesperiidae of Asian Russia, from Korshunov & Gorbunov (1995)] *[http://www2.nrm.se/en/lep_nrm/s/leps.html Lepidoptera page] from the Department of Entomology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History *[https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20070115120000/http://www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/sagarmat.html Natural World Heritage Protected Areas Programme] *[http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=6839 Images representing ''Carterocephalus''] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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Category:Skipperlings Category:Skipper (butterfly) genera Category:Taxa described in 1852 Category:Taxa named by Julius Lederer (entomologist)
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