Polites t. themistocles (Latreille, [1824])
(Tawny-edged Skipper)

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Synonymy

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

Genus Polites Scudder, 1872

4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 78. Type-species: Hesperia peckius W. Kirby, 1837, in: Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am. [4]: 300, pl. 4, figs. 2, 3, by original designation. The generic synonymy follows Burns (1994), J. Lepid. Soc. 48(1): 24-45.

=    Hedone Scudder, 1872

4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 79. Type-species: Hesperia brettus Boisduval & Le Conte, [1837], Hist. Lépid. Amér. sept. (25): pl. 75, figs. 3-5 (= Thymelicus vibex Geyer, 1832, in: Hübner, Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. 4: pl. [118], figs. 685 ♂ D, 686 ♂ V; 22, no. 343; synonym), by original designation.

=    Limochores Scudder, 1872

4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 80. Type-species: Hesperia manataaqua Scudder, 1863, Proc. Essex Inst. 3: 175 (= Hesperia origenes Fabricius, 1793, Entomol. Syst. 3(1): 328, no. 245; synonym), by original designation.

=    Pyrrhosidia Scudder, 1874

Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 2(3)(4): 346 (nota). Type-species: Hesperia mystic W. H. Edwards, 1863, Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philad. 2(1): 16, pl. 1, figs. 1, 2, by original designation.

      =    ‡Chaerophon Godman, 1900

In: Godman & Salvin, Biol. centr.-amer., Lepid. Rhop. 2(156): 462, 474. Type-species: Pamphila citrus Mabille, 1889, Naturaliste (2)3(55): 144-145, fig. 1 (= Hesperia subreticulata Plötz, 1883, Stettiner Entomol. Ztg. 44(4-6): 213, no. 454; synonym), by original designation. Preoccupied by Chaerophon Dobson, 1878, Cat. Chiropt. Brit. Mus.: 431.

=    Poanopsis Godman, 1900

In: Godman & Salvin, Biol. centr.-amer., Lepid. Rhop. 2(157): 486. Type-species: Pamphila puxillius Mabille, 1891, Annls. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 35(c.r.)(18): clxx, by original designation.

=    Yvretta Hemming, 1935

Stylops 4(1): 3. Type-species: Pamphila citrus Mabille, 1889, Naturaliste (2)3(55)[11(55): 144-145, fig. 1 (= Hesperia subreticulata Plötz, 1883, Stettiner Entomol. Ztg. 44(4-6): 213, no. 454; synonym), as a replacement name. Proposed to replace Chaerophon Godman, 1900, preoccupied (Code Articles 60.3, 67.8).

themistocles group MacNeill, 1993

J. Lepid. Soc. 47(3): 178.

Polites themistocles (Latreille, [1824])

Polites themistocles themistocles (Latreille, [1824])

Ency. méth. 9(Ins.)(2): (723), 769, no. 115.

Original Combination: Hesperia Themistocles

Type Locality: “l’Amerique méridionale”

Types: Type(s) possibly in MNHP or BMNH.

N. Riley (1926), Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 74(2): 239, claimed that themistocles was proposed to replace Papilio taumas Fabricius, 1787; if so, then the type data for thaumas would replace those for themistocles.

                         =    ‡taumas (Fabricius, 1787)

Mantissa Ins. 2: 84, no. 746.

Original Combination: P[apilio]. P[lebejii]. U[rbicolae]. Taumas

Type Locality: “America boreali”

Types: Syntype in ZMUC.

Preoccupied by Papilio thaumas Hufnagel, 1766, Berl. Mag. 2: 62 (Code Article 58.11).

                         =    ‡phocion (Fabricius, 1798)

Entomol. Syst. Suppl.: 431.

Original Combination: Hesperia U[rbicolae]. Phocion

Type Locality: “America meridionali”

Types: Syntype in ZMUC.

Preoccupied by Hesperia phocion Fabricius, 1793, Entomol. Syst. 3(1): 335, no. 274.

Rohr collected in the West Indies and South America. The syntype should be examined for the possibility that it represents Polites baracoa (Lucas, 1857).

                   =    cernes (Boisduval & Le Conte, [1837])

Hist. Lépid. Amér. sept. (26): pl. 76, figs. 1 ♂ D, 2 ♂ V.

Original Combination: Hesperia Cernes

Type Locality: Not stated (there is no text); “l’Amérique septentrionale” implied from the title of the book.

Types: Types are the specimens illustrated by Émile Blanchard, probably from Boisduval’s collection. Evans (1955), Cat. Am. Hesp. Brit. Mus. (4): 328, stated that the “type” is in the BMNH, but Calhoun (2004), J. Lepid. Soc. 58(3): 156, discussed the dubious nature of such Boisduval “types.”

                   =    ahaton (T. Harris, 1862)

Ins. injur. Veget. (3rd ed.): 317, fig. 140 ♀ D&V.

Original Combination: Hesperia Ahaton

Type Locality: “Milton” [Norfolk County, Massachusetts]

Types: Syntypes in MCZ.

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