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Oeneis chryxus
ivallda (Mead, 1878) |
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Pinned Specimens photo collection:
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Distribution and Larval Foodplants: Sierra Nevada, CA
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(From: A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, Jonathan P. Pelham) Genus Oeneis Hübner, [1819] Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (4): 58. Type-species: Papilio norna Thunberg, 1791, Ins. Suec. (2): 36-37, pl. 2, figs. 11, [11a], by designation of Butler (1868), Entomol. Mon. Mag. 4(45): 196.
bore group Gorbunov, 2001 Butts. Russia Class.: 226.
Oeneis chryxus (E. Doubleday, [1849]) In: Gen. diurn. Lepid. (1): pl. 64, fig. 1 ♂ D [1849]; (2)(43): 383, no. 13 (Westwood, 1851). Original Combination: Chionobas Chryxus Type Locality: “Rocky Mountains”; defined as “Rock Lake, Alberta (53o 27'N, 118o 16'W)” by J. Shepard (1984), Quaest. Entomol. 20(1): 40-41. Types: Lectotype (#3845) in BMNH, designated by J. Shepard (1984), Quaest. Entomol. 20(1): 42, figs. 5 ♀ D, 6 ♀ V. = altacordillera Scott, 2006 Papilio (n.s.) 12: 14-15, pl. 4 5th row left ♂ D&V (holotype), 5th row center left ♂ D, 5th row center right ♂ D. Original Combination: Oeneis calais altacordillera Type Locality: “Colorado: Sangre de Cristo Mts.: Baldy Peak 12,500', Custer Co.” Types: Holotype in BMNH.
Oeneis chryxus ivallda (Mead, 1878) Can. Entomol. 10(10): 196-198. Original Combination: Chionobas Ivallda Type Locality: “Summit... Freel's Peak and Tallac Mountain...within a few miles of Lake Tahoe, near the boundary line between California and Nevada” [Placer County, California] Types: Syntypes in CMNH; figured in Holland, 1898, Butt. Book: pl. 27, figs. 9 ♂ D, and Holland, 1931, Butt. Book (rev. ed.): pl. 62, fig. 4 ♀ D. Ferris (1989), Mem. Lepid. Soc. 3: 60, 98, discussed the wing pigment chemistry of ivallda and chryxus, and concluded that ivallda is conspecific with chryxus. Porter and Shapiro [1991], J. Res. Lepid. 28(4): 263-276, presented electrophoretic evidence corroborating this conclusion. |
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