title: Pelopidas (skipper)
text: # Pelopidas (skipper)
  
  Pelopidas is a genus of skipper butterflies. They are commonly known as branded swifts or millet skippers. Polytremis kiraizana is sometimes placed here too. The genus was described by Francis Walker in 1870.
  
  ## Notable species
  
  * Pelopidas agna (Moore, 1865) - dark branded swift
  * Pelopidas assamensis (de Nicéville, 1882) - great swift
  * Pelopidas conjucta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) - conjoined swift
  * Pelopidas flava (Evans, 1926)
  * Pelopidas jansonis (Butler, 1878)
  * Pelopidas lyelli (Rothschild, 1915)
  * Pelopidas mathias (Fabricius, 1798) - dark small-branded swift
  * Pelopidas sinensis (Mabille, 1877)
  * Pelopidas subochracea (Moore, 1878) - large branded swift
  * Pelopidas thrax (Hübner, 1821) - pale small-branded swift
  