Ampittia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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: Aeromachini
Genus: Ampittia
Species: A. capenas – A. dalailama – A. dioscorides – A. kilombero – A. maroides – A. nanus – A. parva – A. sichunanensis – A. subvittatus – A. trimacula – A. tristella – A. virgata

Note: See under Aeromachus nanus and Aeromachus dalailama for these former species.

Name

Ampittia Moore, [1881].

Type species: Hesperia maro Fabricius, 1798: 432.

Synonymy

Ampittia Moore, [1881]: 171; Evans, 1949: 238; Hemming, 1967: 41; Bridges, 1994: IX.3.
Ochus de Nicéville, 1894: 51.
- Type species: Cyclopides subvittatus Moore, 1878. Synonymy in Huang et al., 2019: 171.

References

Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix+502pp., 53 pls. BMNH, London. Reference page.
Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Supplementum. Proft et Storch, Hafniae, pp.1–582. 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.
Huang, Z.F., Chiba, H., Jin, J., Kizhakke, A.G., Wang, M., Kunte, K. & Fan, X.L. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology 44: 163–178. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12322 . Reference page.
Larsen, T.B. & Congdon, T.C.E., 2012. The genus Ampittia in Africa with the description of a new species (Hesperiinae; Aeromachini) and three new species in the genera Andronymus and Chondrolepis (Hesperiinae, incertae sedis) (Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). Zootaxa 3322: 049–062. Preview Reference page.
Moore, F. 1881-83. The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Vols. 1, 190pp, pls 1–71. 2, 162pp, pls 72–143. L. Reeve & Co., London. Reference page.
de Nicéville, L., 1894. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region. J. Asiatic. Soc. Beng. 63: 1–58, 5 pls. Reference page.
Wang, Z.G. & Niu, Y. 2002. New species of butterflies (Lepidoptera) from China, II. Entomotaxonomia 2002(4): 276–284. Abstract. Reference page.

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