Lethe p. portlandia (J. Heitzman & dos Passos, 1974)
(Southern Pearly-eye)

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Synonymy

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

Genus Lethe Hübner, [1819]

Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (4): 56. Type-species: Papilio europa Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Entomol.: 500-501, no. 247, by monotypy. The use of Lethe over Satyrodes and Enodia follows R. Chermock (1947), Entomol. News 58(2): 29-35, de Lesse (1957), Ann. Entomol. Soc. Fr. 125: 80-82, and Scott (1986), Butts. N. Am.: 233-236.

Lethe portlandia (Fabricius, 1781)

Lethe portlandia portlandia (Fabricius, 1781)

Spec. Ins. 2: 82, no. 363.

Original Combination: P[apilio]. N[ymphalis]. G[emmata] Portlandia

Type Locality: “America meridionali”; suggested to be “Georgia” by Morris (1862), Smithsonian Misc. Coll. [4]: 79, no. 2, and L. Miller and F. Brown (1981), Mem. Lepid. Soc. (2): 189.

Types: Neotype in HMUG, designated by J. R. Heitzman and dos Passos (1974), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 100(1): 57, figs. 1 ♀ D, 2 ♀ V.

                         =    ‡ andromacha (Hübner, [1809])

Samml. exot. Schmett. 1: pl. [89], figs. 1 ♂ D, 2 ♂ V.

Original Combination: Oreas Marmorea Andromacha

Type Locality: Not stated. The neotype of andromacha is also the neotype of portlandia.

Types: Neotype in HMUG, designated by J. R. Heitzman and dos Passos (1974), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 100(1): 58, figs. 1 ♀ D, 2 ♀ V.

A junior objective synonym of portlandia.

                         =    ‡androcardia Hübner, 1821

Index exot. Lepid.: [1].

Original Combination: Enodia Androcardia

Proposed as a replacement name for andromacha Hübner, [1809], erroneously thought preoccupied; a junior objective synonym of andromacha and portlandia.

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