Ochlodes

Ochlodes
	Female large skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subtribe:	Hesperiina
Genus:	Ochlodes; Scudder, 1872
Species
	Numerous; see text.

Ochlodes is a Holarctic genus in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. The genus is placed in the tribe Hesperiini.

Examples of Ochlodes species:

Ochlodes agricola Boisduval 1852 - USA (Oregon, California), Mexico (Baja California)
Ochlodes amurensis Mabille 1909 - Russia (Amur Oblast)
Ochlodes asahinai Shirozu - Japan
Ochlodes batesi Bell 1935 - Hispaniola (Dominican Republic, Haiti)
Ochlodes bouddha Mabille 1876 - China
Ochlodes brahma Moore 1878 - Northwest Himalayas
Ochlodes crataeis Leech 1893 - China
Ochlodes flavomaculata Draeseke & Reuss - China
Ochlodes formosana Matsumura 1919 - Taiwan
Ochlodes hasegawai Chiba & Tsukiyama 1996 - China
Ochlodes hyrcanna Christoph 1893 - Iran
Ochlodes klapperichii Evans 1940 - China
Ochlodes lanta Evans 1939 - China
Ochlodes linga Evans 1939 - China
Ochlodes niitakana Sonan, 1936 - Taiwan
Ochlodes ochracea Bremer 1861 - East Asia
Ochlodes parvus Kurentzov 1970 - Mongolia
Ochlodes sagitta Hemming 1934 - China
Ochlodes samenta Dyar 1914 - Mexico
Ochlodes similis Leech 1893 - China
Ochlodes siva Moore 1878 - East and Southeast Asia
Ochlodes snowi (WH Edwards 1877) - Central and western USA to Mexico
Ochlodes subhyalina Bremer & Grey 1853 - South, Southeast and East Asia
Ochlodes sylvanoides (Boisduval 1852), woodland skipper - western North America
Ochlodes sylvanus Esper 1778, large skipper - Eurasia
Ochlodes thibetana Oberthuer 1886 - China (Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan)
Ochlodes venatus Bremer & Grey 1853 - East Asia
Ochlodes yuma (WH Edwards 1873), Yuma skipper or giant-reed skipper – western USA

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