Myscelia e. ethusa (Doyère, [1840])
(Mexican Bluewing)

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Synonymy

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

Genus Myscelia E. Doubleday, [1845]

List Spec. Lepid. Brit. Mus. 1: 88. Type-species: Papilio orsis Drury, 1782, Ill. Nat. Hist. 3: 20, index, pl. 16, fig. 3, by designation of W. Barnes and Benjamin (1926), Bull. South. Calif. Acad. Sci. 25(1): 15.

      =    ‡Sagaritis Hübner, [1821]

Samml. exot. Schmett. 2: pl. [43]. Type-species: Sagaritis orseis Hübner, [1821], Samml. exot. Schmett. 2: pl. [43], figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 (= Papilio orsis Drury, 1782, Ill. Nat. Hist. 3: 20, index, pl. 16, fig. 3), by monotypy. Preoccupied by Sagaritis Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billberg: 134.

Myscelia ethusa (Doyère, [1840])

Myscelia ethusa ethusa (Doyère, [1840])

In: Cuvier, Règne Animal. (3rd ed.) Ins. 2(10): pl. 138, figs. 3, 3b ♂ D&V.

Original Combination: Cybdelis Ethusa

Type Locality: Not stated; “Mexico” implied by Jenkins (1984), Bull. Allyn Mus. (87): 41.

Types: Syntype in USNM.

                   =    rogenhoferi R. Felder, 1869

Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 19: 472, no. 22.

Original Combination: Myscelia Rogenhoferi

Type Locality: “Huahuapan” [Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico]

Types: Location of type(s) not known, possibly in BMNH.

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