Genus Chaetocneme C. Felder, 1860

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• Chaetocneme Felder, C. 1860. Lepidopterorum Amboinensium species novae diagnosibus collustratae. I. Rhopalocera. pp. 448-468 in Frauenfeld, G.R. (ed.). Diagnosen einiger neuer Insecten und Untersuchung mehrerer Sandproben verschiedener Küstenpunkte gesammelt während der Reise Sr. Mag. Fregatte Novara. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 40(11): 447-468 [460].

  Type species:

   Chaetocneme corvus Felder, C., 1860 by subsequent designation, see Butler, A.G. 1870. The genera of Hesperidae in the collection of the British Museum. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 7: 55-58 92-99 [57]; Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [78].
• Casyapa Kirby, W.F. 1871. A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera. London : John van Voorst viii 690 pp. [576] [unnecessary replacement name for Chaetocneme Felder, 1860; Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Suppl. 9: 1–509 (98) Kirby incorrectly considered Chaetocneme was preoccupied by Chaetocnema Stephens, 1831 (Coleoptera)].

  Type species:

   Chaetocneme corvus C. Felder, 1860 by indication.
• Phoenicops Watson, E.Y. 1893. A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893(1): 3-132 [publication date: < 0107>] [30].

  Type species:

   Netrocoryne beata Hewitson, 1867 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [109]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC) ; NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Desert Uplands (DEU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Distribution References

General References

Evans, W.H. 1934. Indo-Australian Hesperiidae: descriptions of new genera, species and subspecies. The Entomologist 67: 33-36 [36] (synonymy of Chaetocneme and Phoenicops)

Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [106]

Plötz, C. 1879. Hesperiina Herr. Sch. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 40(4–6): 175-180 [176] (incorrect subsequent spelling of Casyapa as Casiapa)

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