page_title: List of butterflies of Great Britain
section_title: Hesperiidae – skippers
hierarchical_section_title: List of butterflies of Great Britain / Hesperiidae – skippers
caption_attribution_description: English: Grizzled skipper (Pyrgus malvae), Aston Upthorpe, Oxfordshire
context_page_description: This is a list of butterflies of Great Britain, including extinct, naturalised species and those of dubious origin. The list comprises butterfly species listed in The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland by Emmet et al. and Britain's Butterflies by Tomlinson and Still.
  A study by NERC in 2004 found there has been a species decline of 71% of butterfly species between 1983 and 2003. Species listed in the 2007 UK Biodiversity Action Plan are indicated by a double-dagger symbol —two species so listed for research purposes only are also indicated with an asterisk. Range expansions according to the 2010 Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland.
  Butterfly Conservation lists 29 of Great Britain's 58 breeding butterfly species as "High UK treat priority", with 9 of those with conservation priority status "Action urgent across UK range".
context_section_description: Subfamily Heteropterinae
  Chequered skipper – Carterocephalus palaemon ‡
  – formerly thinly distributed in south and east, now confined to western Scotland; re-establishment project ongoing (2018–2020) Rockingham Forest, England
  Subfamily Hesperiinae
  Small skipper – Thymelicus sylvestris
  – throughout Wales and England, except far north-east and north-west; spreading north and west
  Essex skipper – Thymelicus lineola
  – throughout south-east England, with scattered populations in West Country and as far north as the River Humber; spreading north and west
  Lulworth skipper – Thymelicus acteon ‡
  – confined to the south coast between Weymouth and Swanage
  Silver-spotted skipper – Hesperia comma
  – restricted to southern England: east Kent, east Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, north Dorset, south Wiltshire and the southern Chilterns; expanding distribution
  Large skipper – Ochlodes sylvanus
  – throughout England and Wales, and north to south-west Scotland
  Subfamily Pyrginae
  Dingy skipper – Erynnis tages tages ‡
  – thinly distributed through much of England and Wales, and in the Scottish Highlands
  Grizzled skipper – Pyrgus malvae ‡
  – southern England north to north-east Wales, and south-east Wales
caption: Grizzled skipper
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