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Thymelicus sylvatica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Thymelicus
Species:	T. sylvatica
Binomial name
Thymelicus sylvatica (Bremer, 1861)
Synonyms
Pamphila sylvatica Bremer, 1861 Adopaea astigmata Leech, 1894 Adopaea occidentalis Leech, 1894 Adopaea teneprosa Leech, 1894

Thymelicus sylvatica is an eastern Palearctic butterfly in the Hesperiidae (Hesperiinae). The species can be found in Amur, Ussuri, southwest China, Korea, and Japan.

The larva feeds on Calamagrostis, Bromus, Agropyron, Brachypodium, Carex.

Subspecies

• T. s. sylvatica
• T. s. astigmatus (Leech, 1894) (Chang Yang)
• T. s. teneprosus (Leech, 1894)
• T. s. occidentalis (Leech, 1894) (Ta Chien Lou)
• T. s. nishimurai Hamada et Fujioka, 1997