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Lycaena
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Pinned Specimens
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Larval Foodplants and Habitats
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(From: A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, Jonathan P. Pelham) Genus Lycaena [Fabricius], 1807 In: Illiger Mag. f. Insektenk. 6: 285, no. 32. Type-species: Papilio phlaeas Linnaeus, 1761, Fauna Svecica (ed. 2): 285, no. 1078, by designation of J. Curtis (1824), Brit. Entomol. 1(3): pl. 12, [1]. American species in this genus were reviewed by Pratt and D. Wright (2003), Pan-Pac. Entomol. 78(4): 219-229.
Lycaena dione (Scudder, 1868) Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 11: 401. Original Combination: Chrysophanus Dione Type Locality: “Iowa”; defined as “Denison and New Jefferson, Iowa” by Scudder [1870], Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci. 1(2): 330. [Denison, Crawford County; Jefferson, Greene County] Types: Syntypes probably in MCZ. Layberry et al. (1998), Butts. Can.: 121-122, and Opler (1999), Field Guide W. Butts.: 189-190, treated dione as a species-level taxon. = ‡”gibboni” Gunder, 1927 Can. Entomol. 59(12): 284, no. 13, pl. A, fig. 13 ♂ V (“holotype”). Original Combination: Lycaena (Dione) dione tr. f. gibboni Type Locality: “Miniota, Man., Can.” [Manitoba] Types: “Holotype” in CNC. |
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