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Megathymus c. cofaqui (Strecker, 1876)
(Cofaqui Giant-Skipper)

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Megathymus c. cofaqui HOLOTYPE
USA: GEORGIA [Field Museum, Chicago]

 

Megathymus c. cofaqui HOLOTYPE
USA: GEORGIA [Field Museum, Chicago]

 

Megathymus c. cofaqui HOLOTYPE
USA: GEORGIA [Field Museum, Chicago]

 

Megathymus c. cofaqui HOLOTYPE (left – dorsal, right – ventral)
USA: GEORGIA [Field Museum, Chicago]

 

Megathymus c. cofaqui HOLOTYPE
USA: GEORGIA [Field Museum, Chicago]

Megathymus c. cofaqui illustration of the HOLOTYPE, USA: GEORGIA

Image from: Strecker, Ferdinand Heinrich Herman. 1878. Butterflies and moths of North America, with full instructions for collecting, breeding, preparing, classifying, packing for shipment, etc. A complete synonymical catalogue of Macrolepidoptera, with a full bibliography, to which is added a glossary of terms and an alphabetical and descriptive list of localities. Reading; B. F. Owen: [4] + ii + 283 pp., 2 pls. {[Oct] 1878}; pl. 15, f. 2


 

Megathymus c. cofaqui (HOLOTYPE of Megathymus harrisi H. Freeman, 1955)
USA: GEORGIA: DeKalb Co., Stone Mtn., 17-VII-1953 [AMNH]

 

Megathymus c. cofaqui (HOLOTYPE of Megathymus harrisi H. Freeman, 1955)
USA: GEORGIA: DeKalb Co., Stone Mtn., 17-VII-1953 [AMNH]

 

Megathymus c. cofaqui (HOLOTYPE of Megathymus harrisi H. Freeman, 1955)
USA: GEORGIA: DeKalb Co., Stone Mtn., 17-VII-1953 [AMNH]

 

Megathymus c. cofaqui (ALLOTYPE of Megathymus harrisi H. Freeman, 1955)
USA: GEORGIA: DeKalb Co., Stone Mtn., 19-VII-1953 [AMNH]

 

Megathymus c. cofaqui (ALLOTYPE of Megathymus harrisi H. Freeman, 1955)
USA: GEORGIA: DeKalb Co., Stone Mtn., 19-VII-1953 [AMNH]

 

Megathymus c. cofaqui (ALLOTYPE of Megathymus harrisi H. Freeman, 1955)
USA: GEORGIA: DeKalb Co., Stone Mtn., 19-VII-1953 [AMNH]

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