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The roughly 3500 species of skippers are now classified in these subfamilies:

Coeliadinae – awls, awlets, and policemen (about 75 species)

Euschemoninae – regent skipper (monotypic)

Eudaminae – dicot skippers

Pyrginae – spread-winged skippers and firetips ( including Pyrrhopyginae )

Heteropterinae – skipperlings (about 150 species)

Hesperiinae – grass skippers (over 2000 species)

Megathyminae – giant skippers (about 18 species; doubtfully distinct from Hesperiinae)

Trapezitinae – Australian skippers (about 60 species)

Genetic research has determined three new subfamilies (Zhang et al. 2019)

Katreus

Camundinae

Barcinae

Zhang J, Cong Q, Shen J, Brockmann E, Grishin NV (2019) Three new subfamilies of skipper butterflies

(Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). ZooKeys 861: 91–105.