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Apodemia mejicanus deserti
W. Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 |
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Distribution and Larval Foodplants:
Colorado Desert
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(From: A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, Jonathan P. Pelham) Genus Apodemia C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865 Reise Novara Zool. (2): 302. Type-species: Lemonias mormo C. Felder & R. Felder, 1859, Wien. Entomol. Montaschr. 3(9): 271, no. 19, by designation of Stichel (1911), in: Wytsman, Gen. Ins. 112(B): 285, 287. = Chrysobia Boisduval, 1869 Annls. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 12: 52. Type-species: Chrysobia mormonia Boisduval, 1869, Annls. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 12: 52 (= Lemonias mormo C. Felder & R. Felder, 1859, Wien. Entomol. Montaschr. 3(9): 271, no. 19; synonym), by original designation. = ‡Polystigma Godman & Salvin, 1886 Biol. centr.-amer., Lepid. Rhop. 1(45): 469. Type-species: Chrysophanus nais W. H. Edwards, 1877, Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 5(3/4): 291-292, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Polystigma Kraatz, 1880, Dtsche. Entomol. Z. 24(2): 191.
Apodemia mejicanus (Behr, 1865)
Apodemia mejicanus mejicanus (Behr, 1865) Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. [1]3(12): 178, 179. Original Combination: N[emeobius]. Mejicanus Type Locality: “the Sierra Madre, in the neighborhood of Mazatlan” [Sinaloa, Mexico]. Types: Type(s) destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Apodemia mejicanus deserti W. Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 Contr. Nat. Hist. Lepid. N. Am. 4(2): 75, pl. 12, figs. 1 ♂ D, 2 ♀ D. Original Combination: Apodemia mormo deserti Type Locality: “La Puerta Valley, S. Calif.” [San Diego County, California] Types: Syntypes in USNM. |
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