{{Short description|Genus of butterflies}} {{Automatic taxobox | image =HalpeHomolea 817 3 Fitch.png | image_caption = ''Halpe homolea'' | taxon = Halpe | authority = Moore, 1878 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''Halpe homolea'' *''Halpe honorei'' *''Halpe porus'' }}
'''''Halpe''''' is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.<ref>Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9</ref>
==Species== *''Halpe albicilla'' <small>de Jong & Treadaway, 1993</small> Sulawesi. *''Halpe arcuata'' <small>Evans, 1937</small> Northeast India, Burma to Malay Peninsula, Laos, Yunnan *''Halpe aucma'' <small>Swinhoe, 1893</small> Tibet *''Halpe aurifera'' <small>(Elwes & Edwards, 1897)</small> Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Nias *''Halpe beturia'' <small>(Hewitson, 1868)</small> Sulawesi, Banggai *''Halpe burmana'' <small>Swinhoe, 1893</small> Burma, Thailand, Laos *''Halpe clara'' <small>Cassidy, 1985</small> Borneo *''Halpe damar'' <small>Bedford-Russel, 1984</small> Sulawesi *''Halpe dante'' <small>Evans, 1949</small> *''Halpe dizangpusa'' <small>Huang, 2002</small> China *''Halpe elana'' <small>Eliot, 1939</small> Thailand, Laos, Malaya *''Halpe fasciata'' <small>Elwes & Edwards, 1897</small> *''Halpe filda'' <small>Evans, 1949</small> Tibet, Sikkim *''Halpe flava'' <small>Evans, 1926</small> Burma, Thailand, Laos, Malaya, Borneo *''Halpe frontieri'' <small>Devyatkin, 1997</small> Vietnam *''Halpe gamma'' <small>Evans, 1937</small> China, Formosa *''Halpe handa'' <small>Evans, 1949</small> Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Yunnan *''Halpe hauxwelli'' <small>Evans, 1937</small> Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan *''Halpe hermaphrodite'' <small>Chiba & Tsukiyama, 1999</small> Philippines *''Halpe hieron'' <small>de Nicéville, 1894</small> Sumatra *''Halpe homolea'' <small>(Hewitson, 1868)</small> Sikkim - Assam, Burma, Ceylon Malaya, Java *''Halpe inconspicua'' <small>de Jong & Treadaway, 1993</small> Philippines *''Halpe insignis'' <small>(Distant, 1886)</small> Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra *''Halpe knyvetti'' <small>Elwes & Edwards, 1897</small> India, Tibet, Sikkim *''Halpe kumara'' <small>de Nicéville, 1885</small> Sikkim, Assam, Yunnan *''Halpe kusala'' <small>Frühstorfer, 1911</small> Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam *''Halpe luteisquama'' <small>(Mabille, 1877)</small> Philippines *''Halpe luzona'' <small>Evans, 1949</small> Philippines *''Halpe mixta'' <small>Huang, 2003</small> Yunnan *''Halpe molta'' <small>Evans, 1949</small> Tibet *''Halpe muoi'' <small>Huang, 1999</small> Yunnan *''Halpe nephele'' <small>Leech, 1893</small> Sichuan, Laos *''Halpe nuydai'' <small>Murayama & Okumura, 1973</small> *''Halpe ormenes'' <small>(Plötz, 1886)</small> Sikkim to Burma, Yunnan, Thailand, Laos, Malaya, Java *''Halpe palawea'' <small>Staudinger, 1889</small> *''Halpe parakumara'' <small>Huang, 2003</small> China *''Halpe paupera'' <small>Devyatkin, 2002</small> Vietnam, Hong Kong *''Halpe pelethronix'' <small>Frühstorfer, 1910</small> Burma, Thailand, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sundaland *''Halpe porus'' <small>(Mabille, 1877)</small> Nilgiris, Coorg, Kanara, Bihar, Mussoorie to Burma, West China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaya, Hainan, Langkawi *''Halpe purpurascens'' <small>de Jong & Treadaway, 1993</small> Philippines *''Halpe scissa'' <small>Cantlie, 1961</small> Assam *''Halpe sikkima'' <small>Moore, 1882</small> Sikkim to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java *''Halpe sulphurifera'' <small>(Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)</small> *''Halpe tilia'' <small>Evans, 1949</small> Philippines *''Halpe toxopea'' <small>Evans, 1932</small> Thailand, Langkawi, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Palawan *''Halpe veluvana'' <small>Frühstorfer, 1911</small> Java *''Halpe wantona'' <small>Swinhoe, 1893</small> Assam to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Malaya *''Halpe zandra'' <small>Evans, 1937</small> *''Halpe zema'' <small>(Hewitson, 1877)</small> Sikkim to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan, Malaya, Java *''Halpe zinda'' <small>Evans, 1937</small> Malaya *''Halpe zola'' <small>Evans, 1937</small> Burma, Thailand, Laos
==Biology== ''Halpe'' larvae feed on Gramineae including ''Dinochloa'', ''Ochlandra talbotii'' and ''Bambusa'' <ref>Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/ nhm hosts]</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} *[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList3.dsml?searchPageURL=index.dsml&SUPERFAMIL=&FAMILYqtype=starts+with&FAMILY=hesperiidae&SUBFAMILYqtype=starts+with&SUBFAMILY=&TRIBEqtype=starts+with&TRIBE=&SUBTRIBEqtype=starts+with&SUBTRIBE=&GENUSqtype=starts+with&GENUS=&AUTHORqtype=starts+with&AUTHOR=&YEARqtype=equals&YEAR=&sort=GENUS Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database]
==External links== *[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/halpe/ Funet]
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Category:Astictopterini Category:Butterflies of Indochina Category:Skipper (butterfly) genera Category:Taxa named by Frederic Moore Category:Taxa described in 1878
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