Oarisma g. garita (Reakirt, 1866)
(Garita Skipperling)

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Synonymy

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

  Genus Oarisma Scudder, 1872

4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 75. Type-species: Hesperia powesheik Parker, 1870, Am. Entomol. Bot. 2(9): 271, by original designation.

=    Paradopaea Godman, 1900

In: Godman & Salvin, Biol. centr.-amer., Lepid. Rhop. 3(156): pl. 92, figs. 23-29. Type-species: Hesperia garita Reakirt, 1866, Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philad. 6(1): 150-151, by designation of Lindsey (1925), Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 18(1): 96.

Oarisma garita (Reakirt, 1866)

Oarisma garita garita (Reakirt, 1866)

Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philad. 6(1): 150-151.

Original Combination: Hesperia Garitá

Type Locality: “Rocky Mountains, Colorado Terr.”; suggested to be “Mts. W. of Denver Colo.” by Scott (2008), Papilio (n.s.) 19: 30.

Types: Syntype(s) in FMNH.

                   =    hylax (W. H. Edwards, 1871)

Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 3(3/4): 266, 274, no. 16.

Original Combination: Thymeticus [sic!] Hylax

Type Locality: “Colorado”; defined as “South Park and at Twin Lakes, Colorado” by F. Brown (1934), J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 42(2): 162; further defined as “vicinity of Twin Lakes, Lake County, Colorado” by F. Brown and L. Miller (1977), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 103(1): 269.

Types: Lectotype in CMNH, designated by F. Brown and L. Miller (1977), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 103(1): 269-270, fig. 6 ♂ D&V.

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