Anteos maerula (Fabricius, 1775)
(Yellow Angled-Sulphur)

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Synonymy

(From: A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, Jonathan P. Pelham)

Genus Anteos Hübner, [1819]

Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (7): 99. Type-species: Papilio maerula Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Entomol.: 479, no. 157, by designation of Godman and Salvin (1889), Biol. centr.-amer., Lepid. Rhop. 2(79): 148.

      =    ‡Amynthia Swainson, 1831

Zool. Illustr. (2)2(14): pl. 65 [actually 63], unnumbered text. Type-species: Papilio maerula Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Entomol.: 479, no. 157, by original designation. A junior objective synonym of Anteos Hübner, [1819].

=    Klotsius Hemming, 1964

Annot. Lepid. (4): 148. Type-species: Mancipium menippe Hübner, [1818], Samml. exot. Schmett. 1: pl. [147], figs. 1, 2, by original designation.

Anteos maerula (Fabricius, 1775)

Syst. Entomol.: 479, no. 157.

Original Combination: P[apilio]. D[anaus]. C[andidus]. Maerula

Type Locality: “America”; provisionally determined be “Jamaica” by D. Bates (1935), Bull. Harvard Mus. Comp. Zool. 78(2): 139; stated as “probably Jamaica” by Klots (1951), Field Guide Butts. N. Am.: 190.

Types: Syntypes in HMUG.

            =    lacordairei (Boisduval, 1836)

Spec. gén. Lépid. 1: 600, no. 3.

Original Combination: Rhodocera Lacordairei

Type Locality: “Mexique”

Types: Syntype in MNHP.

As first revisers, L. Miller and F. Brown (1981), Mem. Lepid. Soc. (2): 85, accorded precedence to lacordairei over gueneeana.

            =    gueneeana (Boisduval, 1836)

Spec. gén. Lépid. 1: 601, no. 5.

Original Combination: Rhodocera Gueneeana

Type Locality: “Mexique”

Types: Syntype in BMNH.

                   =    ‡”flava” (Röber, 1909)

In: Seitz, Grossschmett. Erde 5(26): 89.

Original Combination: [Gonepteryx maerula] ab. flava

Type Locality: Not stated; lectotype from “Cuba.”

Types: “Lectotype” in MTD, designated by Lamas (1995), Shilap Revta. Lepid. 23(91): 344.

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