Carcharodini

{{Short description|Tribe of butterflies}}

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| image = Muschampia tessellum - Tessellated Skipper.jpg

| image_caption = Muschampia tessellum, Tessellated Skipper, Turkey

| taxon = Carcharodini

| authority = Verity, 1940

| diversity_link = #Genera

| diversity = 37 genera

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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.Brower (2009)

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.

The tribe of the Pyrgini sensu lato most closely related to the Pyrgini sensu stricto are the strikingly different Achlyodidini. As many consider it desirable to treat this lineage as a distinct tribe, the Carcharodini naturally need to be considered distinct too.

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Carcharodini:{{Cite journal |last1=Cong |first1=Qian |last2=Zhang |first2=Jing |last3=Shen |first3=Jinhui |last4=Grishin |first4=Nick |date=2019 |title=Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) |journal=Insecta Mundi |volume=0731 |pages=1–56}}

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Footnotes

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{{Cite journal

| title = Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns

| date = 2019

| last1 = Li | first1 = Wenlin

| last2 = Cong | first2 = Qian

| last3 = Shen | first3 = Jinhui

| last4 = Zhang | first4 = Jing

| last5 = Hallwachs | first5 = Winnie

| last6 = Janzen | first6 = Daniel H.

| last7 = Grishin | first7 = Nick V.

| display-authors = 4

| journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

| volume = 116| issue = 13

| pages = 6232–6237

| doi = 10.1073/pnas.1821304116

| pmid = 30877254

| pmc = 6442542

| doi-access = free

| bibcode = 2019PNAS..116.6232L

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{{Cite journal

| title = A genomic perspective on the taxonomy of the subtribe Carcharodina (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Carcharodini)

| date = 2020

| last1 = Zhang | first1 = Jing

| last2 = Brockmann | first2 = Ernst

| last3 = Cong | first3 = Qian

| last4 = Shen | first4 = Jinhui

| last5 = Grishin | first5 = Nick V.

| display-authors = 4

| journal = Zootaxa

| volume = 4748| issue = 1

| pages = zootaxa.4748.1.10

| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.10| pmid = 32230093

| pmc = 8018707

| doi-access = free

}}

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References

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  • {{aut|Brower, Andrew V.Z.}} (2009): Tree of Life Web Project – [http://tolweb.org/Carcharodini/95260 Carcharodini]. Version of 2009-JUN-14. Retrieved 2009-DEC-26.

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Category:Taxa named by Ruggero Verity

Category:Butterfly tribes

Category:Taxa described in 1940

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