About 20 - see text Hesperia, the branded skippers, is a Holarctic genus in the skippers (Hesperiidae) butterfly family.

Most species are endemic to North America, Hesperia comma is widespread throughout the region.

H. florinda is endemic to temperate eastern Asia.

Presumably, Johan Christian Fabricius named the genus for Hesperia, one of the Hesperides.

The following species are recognised in the genus Hesperia:[1] Many species originally described in the genus Hesperia have now been reclassified.