| Chaetocneme | |
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| Chaetocneme denitza | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Pyrginae |
| Tribe: | Tagiadini |
| Genus: | Chaetocneme Felder, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Chaetocneme corvus Felder, 1860 |
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| Species | |
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Several, see text |
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Chaetocneme is genus of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae). It belongs to the tribe Tagiadini of subfamily Pyrginae.
The genus was established in 1860 with "Chaetocneme corvus" – then newly-described as it was believed – as the type species. However, the same species was already described by Pieter Cramer in 1775 under the name "Papilio helirius". Thus, the type species is nowadays called Chaetocneme helirius.