Carterocephalus

Carterocephalus is a Holarctic genus of skipperlings in the skipper family, Hesperiidae.

The wing colour is yellow, white, dark-brown and black with a variously spotted appearance. The hindwing upperside is dark with clear cut rounded lighter spots. The majority of species are endemic to China.

Species
Listed alphabetically:
 * Carterocephalus abax Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet
 * Carterocephalus alcinoides Lee, 1962 - Yunnan
 * Carterocephalus alcina Evans, 1939 - Yunnan
 * Carterocephalus argyrostigma (Eversmann, 1851) - Siberia, Mongolia and China
 * Carterocephalus avanti (de Nicéville, 1886) – orange and silver mountain hopper – Tibet
 * Carterocephalus canopunctatus (Nabokov 1941)
 * Carterocephalus christophi Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 - Tibet, western China
 * Carterocephalus dieckmanni Graesser, 1888 - China
 * Carterocephalus flavomaculatus Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, West China
 * Carterocephalus gemmatus Leech, 1891
 * Carterocephalus habaensis Yoshino, 1997 - Yunnan
 * Carterocephalus houangty Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, western China
 * Carterocephalus mandan Oberthür, 1891
 * Carterocephalus micio Oberthür, 1891 - China
 * Carterocephalus niveomaculatus Oberthür, 1886 - Tibet, West and South China
 * Carterocephalus palaemon (Pallas, 1771) – chequered skipper
 * Carterocephalus pulchra (Leech, 1891) - Tibet, western China
 * Carterocephalus silvicola (Meigen, 1829) – northern chequered skipper
 * Carterocephalus skada (W. H. Edwards, 1870) Arctic skipper, arctic skipperling

Former species

 * Carterocephalus plancus Hopffer, 1874 - transferred to Ladda plancus (Hopffer, 1874)