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Lycaena phlaeas
arethusa (Dod, 1907) |
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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 phlaeas (Linnaeus, 1761) Fauna Svecica (ed. 2): 285, no. 1078; cited Linnaeus (1746), Fauna Svecica: 247, 248, no. 807, Merian (1730), Europ. Ins.: pl. 164, Petiver (1699), Mus. Petiver. Cent. Rar. Nat. Cont. (4/5): 34, no. 317, and Ray (1710), Hist. Ins.: 125, no. 20. Original Combination: P[apilio]. P[lebejus ruricola]. Phlaeas Type Locality: “in pratis Westmanniae” [Vestmanland, Sweden] Types: Type(s) apparently lost, as noted by Honey and Scoble (2001), Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 132(3): 365. = eleus (Fabricius, 1798) Entomol. Syst. Suppl.: 430. Original Combination: H[esperia]. R[urales]. Eleus Type Locality: “Germania” Types: Syntype in ZMUC.
Lycaena phlaeas arethusa (Wolley-Dod, 1907) Can. Entomol. 39(5): 169-170. Original Combination: Chrysophanus arethusa Type Locality: “the foothills...Lineham's lower log camp, south fork of Sheep Creek...about thirty-five miles south-west of Calgary...Alberta...near the spruce woods about ten or fifteen miles nearer Calgary”; Kohler (2007), Tax. Rep. Int. Lepid. Surv. 7(1): 9, defined this as “the head of Fish Creek and the south fork of Sheep Creek, Alberta.” Types: Syntypes in USNM and CNC. |
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