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Carcharodini
The Carcharodini are a tribe in the skipper butterfly subfamily Pyrginae. They are a very diverse but quite plesiomorphic and inconspicuous group distributed throughout the tropics.
Formerly, when only four tribes of Pyrginae were recognized, they were included in the Pyrgini, which at that time contained a massive number of genera. But the Pyrginae have since been reorganized to make them and their tribes monophyletic, leading most modern authors to treat the Carcharodini as distinct tribe. However, the old circumscription of the Pyrgini was by and large just as correct from a phylogenetic perspective.
30 branches of this tribe, most-observed first
Carcharodina
subtribeCarcharodina
Pholisora
genusPholisora
Scallopwings
genusStaphylus
Bolla
genusBolla
Nisoniades
genusNisoniades
Pellicia
genusPellicia
Noctuana
genusNoctuana
Polyctor
genusPolyctor
Viola Skippers
genusViola
Gorgopas
genusGorgopas
Hesperopsis
genusHesperopsis
Cyclosemia
genusCyclosemia
Arteurotia
genusArteurotia
Sophista
genusSophista
Incisus
genusIncisus
Pachyneuria
genusPachyneuria
Morvina
genusMorvina
Mictris
genusMictris
Clytius
genusClytius
Viuria
genusViuria
Burca
genusBurca
Iliana
genusIliana
Myrinia
genusMyrinia
Ocella
genusOcella
Windia
genusWindia
Xispia
genusXispia
Pholisorina
subtribePholisorina
Mimia
genusMimia
Conognathus
genusConognathus
Tiana
genusTiana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 320579.