Ampittia

Genus of butterflies

Ampittia

Ampittia dioscorides etura
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Hesperiidae
Subfamily:  | Hesperiinae
Tribe:  | Ampittiini
Tutt, 1906
Genus:  | Ampittia
Moore, 1882
Species

10, see text[1]

Ampittia is the genus of bush hoppers in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. It is the only member of the tribe Ampittiini.

## Species[edit]

* Ampittia capenas (Hewitson, 1868) – African bush hopper
* Ampittia dalailama (Mabille, 1876)
* Ampittia dioscorides (Fabricius, 1793) – (common) bush hopper
* Ampittia kilombero T.B. Larsen & Congdon, 2012
* Ampittia maroides de Nicéville, [1896]
* Ampittia nanus (Leech, 1890)
* Ampittia parva Aurivillius, 1925
* Ampittia sichunanensis Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002
* Ampittia trimacula (Leech, 1891)
* Ampittia tristella Shou, Chou & Li, 2006
* Ampittia virgata (Leech, 1890)
* Ampittia virgata miyakei Matsumura, 1910

## References[edit]

1. ^ Ampittia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

* 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: 49-62.
* Wang, Z.-G. & Y. Niu, 2002: New species of butterflies (Lepidoptera) from China, II. Entomotaxonomia 2002 (4): 276-284.

## External links[edit]

Media related to Ampittia at Wikimedia Commons  Data related to Ampittia at Wikispecies

* Images representing Ampitia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q1761353
* Wikispecies: Ampittia
* BioLib: 644124
* BOLD: 353282
* ButMoth: 1351.0
* CoL: 8ZZPR
* EoL: 20346
* GBIF: 1942373
* iNaturalist: 209371
* IRMNG: 1289631
* LepIndex: 180735
* NCBI: 509333

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