Carterocephalus palaemon

Chequered skipper
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Carterocephalus
Species:
C. palaemon
Binomial name
Carterocephalus palaemon
(Pallas, 1771)

Carterocephalus palaemon, the chequered skipper or arctic skipper, not to be confused with the large chequered skipper, is a species of woodland butterfly in the family Hesperiidae.[2] This butterfly can live in grasslands. The upperside of the butterfly is brown with orange spots and on its underside the chequered skipper is orange with brown spots. Chequered skippers are found in Great Britain and other European regions, but seen locally in Japan and in North America. The size of the chequered skipper ranges from 19 to 32 mm with females being larger. In the 1970s, the chequered skipper went extinct in England due to the new management of the woodlands.[3]

  1. ^ van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M. & Settele, J. 2010. Carterocephalus palaemon. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T174371A7059673. Downloaded on 20 June 2021.
  2. ^ Ravenscroft, Neil O.M (1994). "Environmental influences on mate location in male chequered skipper butterflies, Carterocephalus palaemon (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)". Animal Behaviour. 47 (5): 1179–87. doi:10.1006/anbe.1994.1156. S2CID 53196430.
  3. ^ Ravenscroft, N. O. M (1994). "The Ecology of the Chequered Skipper Butterfly Carterocephalus palaemon in Scotland. I. Microhabitat". The Journal of Applied Ecology. 31 (4): 613–22. Bibcode:1994JApEc..31..613R. doi:10.2307/2404152. JSTOR 2404152.