Chlosyne definita anastasia (Hemming, 1934)
(Definite Checkerspot)

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Synonymy

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

Genus Chlosyne Butler, 1870

Cist. Entomol. 1(3): 38, no. 37. Type-species: Papilio janais Drury, 1782, Ill. Nat. Hist., 3: 22, index, pl. 17, figs. 5, 6, as replacement name. Proposed to replace Synchloe E. Doubleday, 1844, preoccupied (Code Articles 60.3, 67.8). The synonymy for this genus follows Wahlberg and Zimmerman (2000), Cladistics 16(4): 347-363.

      =    ‡Morpheis Geyer, [1833]

In: Hübner, Samml. exot. Schmett. 3: pl [5], figs. 1-4. Type-species: Morpheis ehrenbergii Geyer, [1833], in: Hübner, Samml. exot. Schmett., 3: pl [5], figs. 1-4, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Morpheis Hübner, [1820], Verz. bekannt. Schmett., 13: 196.

      =    ‡Synchloe E. Doubleday, [1845]

List Spec. Lepid. Brit. Mus. 1: 76. Type-species: Papilio janais Drury, 1782, Ill. Nat. Hist. 3: 22, index, pl. 17, figs. 5, 6, by designation of Scudder (1875), Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10(2): 141, no. 253. Preoccupied by Synchloe Hübner, 1818, Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. 1: 26.

      =    ‡Coatlantona W. F. Kirby, 1871

Syn. Cat. diurn. Lepid.: 178. Type-species: Papilio janais Drury, 1782, Ill. Nat. Hist. 3: 22, index, pl. 17, figs. 5, 6, as replacement name. Proposed to replace Synchloe E. Doubleday, 1844, preoccupied (Code Articles 60.3, 67.8). A junior objective synonym of Chlosyne Butler, 1870.

=    Anemeca W. F. Kirby, 1871

Syn. Cat. diurn. Lepid.: 179. Type-species: Morpheis ehrenbergii Geyer, [1833], in: Hübner, Samml. exot. Schmett. 3: pl [5], figs. 1-4, as replacement name. Proposed to replace Morpheis Geyer, [1833], in: Hübner, Samml. exot. Schmett. 3: pl [5], figs. 1-4, preoccupied (Code Articles 60.3, 67.8).

=    Charidryas Scudder, 1872

4th Ann. Rept. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 47. Type-species: Melitaea nycteis E. Doubleday, 1847, in: Gen. diurn. Lepid. (1)(12): pl. 23, fig. 3; (21): 181, no. 23 (1848), by original designation.

      =    ‡Limnaecia Scudder, 1872

4th Ann. Rept. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 47. Type-species: Melitaea harrisii Scudder, 1863, Proc. Essex Inst. 3: 167-168, no. 36, by original designation. Preoccupied by Limnaecia Stainton, 1851, Suppl. Cat. Brit. Pteroph.: 4.

=    Thessalia Scudder, 1875

Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 2(4): 238, 265, no. 49. Type-species: Melitaea leanira C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860, Wien. Entomol. Montaschr. 4(4): 106, no. 64, by original designation.

Chlosyne definita (E. Aaron, 1885)

Papilio 4(9/10): 176-177.

Original Combination: Melitaea Definita

Type Locality: “Inland from Corpus Christi” [Nueces County, Texas]

Types: Syntypes in CMNH, FMNH and in ANSP; figured by W. Holland (1931), Butt. Book (rev. ed.): pl. 56, figs. 14 ♂ D, 15 ♂ V.

As first revisers, W. Barnes and McDunnough (1917), Check List Lepid. Bor. Am.: 9, no. 239, gave definita priority over albiplaga.

=    albiplaga (E. Aaron, 1885)

Papilio 4(9/10): 175-176.

Original Combination: Melitaea Albiplaga

Type Locality: “Gulf region near Corpus Christi” [Nueces County, Texas]

Types: Holotype (#7756) in ANSP.

=    schausi (Godman & Salvin, 1901)

Biol. centr.-amer., Lepid. Rhop. 2(163): 676-677, no. 4; 3(166): pl. 108, figs. 11 ♂ D, 12 ♂ V (holotype).

Original Combination: Melitaea schausi

Type Locality: “Mexico, Paso de San Juan in Vera Cruz” [Veracruz]

Types: Holotype in BMNH.

Chlosyne definita anastasia (Hemming, 1934)

Stylops 3(9): 193.

Original Combination: Melitaea anastasia

Proposed to replace Melitaea beckeri Godman & Salvin, 1901, with the same data (Code Article 60.3).

                         =    ‡beckeri (Godman & Salvin, 1901)

Biol. centr.-amer., Lepid. Rhop. 2(163): 676, no. 3; 3(166): pl. 108, figs. 9 ♂ D, 10 ♂ V (holotype).

Original Combination: Melitaea beckeri

Type Locality: “Mexico, Durango city” [Durango]

Types: Holotype in BMNH.

Preoccupied by Melitaea artemis var. beckeri Herrich-Schäffer, 1851, Syst. Bearb. Schmett. Europ. 6: 1.

Bibliography

Aaron, Eugene Murray and Samuel Frank Aaron. 1885. A list of a collection of diurnal Lepidoptera from southern Texas. Papilio 4(9/10): 172-182. {Nov-Dec 1884, 13 Jul 1885} [description of Melitaea Albiplaga, Meltaea Definita] 

Barnes, William and James Halliday McDunnough. 1917. Check list of the Lepidoptera of boreal America. Decatur, Illinois; Herald Press: viii + 392 pp. {Feb 1917} 

Godman, Frederick du Cane and Osbert Salvin. 1879-1901. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoology: Insecta. Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. London; Taylor & Francis, 3 volumes (Vols. 36-38): 1(Nym., Rio.)(1879-1886); xlv+487 pp.; 2(Pier., Pap., Lyc., Hes.)(1887-1901): 782 pp.; 3(plates): 1-48 (1879-1886); 49-112 (1887-1901) [description of Melitaea beckeri] 

Hemming, Arthur Francis. 1934. Revisional notes on certain species of Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera). Stylops 3(9): 193-200. {15 Sep 1934} [erection of Melitaea anastasia] 

Higgins, Lionel George. 1960. A revision of the melitaeine genus Chlosyne and allied species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 112(14): 381-467, 134 figs. {31 Dec 1960} 

Hoffmann, Carlos Christian. 1940. Catálogo systemático y zoogeográphico de los Lepidópteros Mexicanos, Primera parte. Papilionoidea. Anales del Instituto de Biología. Universidad Nacional de México 11(2): 639-739, 2 maps. {[after 28 Dec] 1940} 

Röber, Johannes Karl Max 1913-1914. Gattung Phyciodes. In: A. Seitz (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 5(162): pl. 92 {5 Jun 1913}; (183): 434-440, pl. 90 {10 Dec 1913}; (188): 449-450, pls. 88, 89. {[before 10 Feb] 1914}; (189): pl. 91. {14 Apr 1914} 

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