Cupido comyntas texana (F. Chermock, 1945)

Cupido comyntas texana (F. Chermock, 1945)
(Eastern Tailed-Blue)

Distribution and Larval Foodplants:

C & W TX, S NM, SE AZ, S to Ecuador

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

Genus Cupido Schrank, 1801

Fauna boic. 2(1): 153, 206. Type-species: Papilio minimus Fuessly, 1775, Verz. bekannt. schweiz. Ins.: 31, no. 599, by designation of I.C.Z.N. Opinion 503. Kudrna (1986), Butts. Europe 8: 194, and others since, considered Everes a subgenus or synonym of Cupido Schrank, 1801.

= Zizera Moore [1881]

Lepid. Ceylon 1(2): 78. Type-species: Papilio alsus [Schiffermüller], 1775, Ankündung eines syst. Werkes Schmett. Wiener Gegend: 184, no. 9 (= Papilio minimus Fuessly, 1775, Verz. bekannt. schweiz. Ins.: 31, no. 599; synonym).

Cupido comyntas (Godart, [1824])

In: Ency. méth. 9(Ins.)(2): (608), 660, no. 147; figured by Boisduval and Le Conte [1835], Hist. Lépid. Amér. sept. (12): pl. 36, figs. 6 ♂ D, 7 ♂ V.

Original Combination: Polyommatus Comyntas

Type Locality: “l’Amérique septentrionale”

Types: Holotype in MNHP.

= ‡”watermani” (Nakahara, 1926)

Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 20(5): 224.

Original Combination: Everes comyntas ab. watermani

Type Locality: “Ithaca, N. Y.” [Tompkins County, New York]

Types: “Holotype” in USNM.

= ‡”meinersi” (W. D. Field, 1938)

J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 11(4): 132-133.

Original Combination: Everes comyntas f. meinersi

Type Locality: “Lawrence, Kansas” [Douglas County]

Types: “Holotype” in USNM.

The text clearly indicates that this taxon was described as an individual variant.

Cupido comyntas texana (F. Chermock, 1945)

Can. Entomol. 76(11): 215.

Original Combination: Everes texana

Type Locality: “near San Antonio, Texas” [Bexar County]

Types: Holotype in USNM.

Species-genus gender conformation is texanus.

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