Cercyonis meadii melania (Wind, 1946)
(Mead’s Wood-Nymph)

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Synonymy

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

Genus Cercyonis Scudder, 1875

Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 2(4): 235, 241, no. 5. Type-species: Papilio alope Fabricius, 1793, Entomol. Syst. 3(1): 229, no. 715 (= Papilio pegala Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Entomol.: 494, no. 223; subspecies), by original designation.

Cercyonis meadii (W. H. Edwards, 1872)

Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 4(1/2): 61, 70, no. 10; figured by W. H. Edwards (1891), Butts. N. Am. 3(11): pl. Satyrus 2, figs. 1 ♂ D, 2 ♂ V, 3 ♀ D, 4 ♀ V.

Original Combination: Erebia Meadii

Type Locality: “Bailey's Ranch, in the South Park, Colorado, about 45 miles from Denver” [Bailey, Park County]

Types: Lectotype in CMNH, designated by F. Brown (1964), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 90(4): 372, fig. 16 ♀ D&V.

Cercyonis meadii melania (Wind, 1946)

Pan-Pac. Entomol. 22(1): 25-26.

Original Combination: Minois meadii melania

Type Locality: “Marfa-Alpine, Texas” [Presidio-Brewster counties]

Types: Holotype in CAS.

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