HESPERIIDAE
 		  
This page can help you identify the butterfly you have seen if it belongs to the Hesperiidae family :  
   
1) look at the butterfly thumbnails below and determine the genus or species which most closely matches your butterfly  
   
2) then find the genus or the species in the alphabetic index and check the species pages by clicking on the latin names  
   
Car --> Pyr Slo --> Thy Illustration of the main genera or species
Syrichtus proto [see Muschampia proto]

 
 
Carcharodus sp.
Erynis tages
Carterocephalus palaemon
Ochlodes sylvanus
Thymelicus sp.
Hesperia comma
Spialia sp.
Muschampia proto
 
Pyrgus sp.
 
 
TABLE OF CONTENT (of species pages)
 photo available        species not pictured yet
 
fam. HESPERIIDAE male female pair larva egg chrysalis last update
Carcharodus alceae 24/04/2023
Carcharodus baeticus        23/04/2018
Carcharodus floccifer         19/05/2023
Carcharodus lavatherae         05/02/2021
Carterocephalus palaemon         20/05/2025
Erynnis tages     04/03/2021
Gegenes pumilio            
Hesperia comma       27/03/2015
Heteropterus morpheus       14/06/2021
Muschampia proto       01/03/2021
Ochlodes sylvanus     06/05/2020
Pyrgus alveus ssp alveus         27/05/2025
Pyrgus alveus ssp accretus         12/02/2025
Pyrgus andromedae           13/02/2021
Pyrgus armoricanus     29/11/2024
Pyrgus cacaliae         16/01/2022
Pyrgus carlinae       01/06/2019
Pyrgus carthami         12/03/2023
Pyrgus cirsii         01/03/2023
Pyrgus foulquieri         03/03/2023
Pyrgus malvae         12/10/2013
Pyrgus malvoides 25/04/2022
Pyrgus onopordi         03/03/2023
Pyrgus serratulae     13/05/2023
Pyrgus sidae   22/01/2022
Pyrgus warrenensis           05/11/2025
Spialia sertorius       27/06/2019
Spialia therapne         07/10/2024
Thymelicus acteon         06/02/2021
Thymelicus lineola       06/05/2020
Thymelicus sylvestris        14/02/2021