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Panoquina lucas (Fabricius, 1793)
(Purple-washed Skipper)

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[= sylvicola, = woodruffi], Gr. & Less. Antilles, S TX to Argentina

Synonymy

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

Genus Panoquina Hemming, 1934

Entomol. 67(849): 38. Type-species: Hesperia panoquin Scudder, 1863, Proc. Essex Inst. 3: 178-179, no. 81, as replacement name. Proposed to replace Prenes Scudder, 1872, preoccupied (Code Articles 60.3, 67.8).

      =    ‡Prenes Scudder, 1872

4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 81. Type-species: Hesperia panoquin Scudder, 1863, Proc. Essex Inst. 3: 178-179, no. 81, by original designation. Preoccupied by Prenes Gistel, 1848, Nat. Thierr.: 10.

 

Panoquina lucas (Fabricius, 1793)

Entomol. Syst. 3(1): 339, no. 290.

Original Combination: H[esperia]. U[rbicola]. Lucas

Type Locality: “Americae meridionalis Insulis”

Types: Lectotype in ZMUC, designated by Mielke and Casagrande (2002), Revta. bras. Zool. 19(supl. 1): 59.

            =    sylvicola (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865)

Corresp-Bl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg 19(3/4): 55, no. 13.

Original Combination: [Goniloba] sylvicola

Type Locality: “Cuba” implied from the title of the paper.

Types: Lectotype in ZMHB, designated by Mielke and Casagrande (2002), Revta. bras. Zool. 19(supl. 1): 59.

             =    woodruffi F. Watson, 1937

Am. Mus. Novit. (906): 6.

Original Combination: Panoquina sylvicola woodruffi

Type Locality: "Aibonito, Puerto Rico"

Types: Holotype in AMNH.

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