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Polygonia faunus
hylas (W. H. Edwards, 1872) |
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(From: A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, Jonathan P. Pelham) Genus Polygonia Hübner, [1819] Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (3): 36. Type-species: Papilio c-aureum Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 477, no. 116, by designation of Scudder (1872) 4th Ann. Rept. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 30. The arrangement of Polygonia taxa follows Weingartner et al. (2006), J. Evol. Biol. 19(2): 483-491. = Eugonia Hübner, [1819] Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (3): 36-37. Type-species: Papilio angelica Stoll, 1782, Uitl. Kapellen 4(33): 204, pl. 388, figs. G, H; (34): 247 (index) (= Papilio c-aureum Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 477, no. 116; synonym), by designation of Grote (1873), Can. Entomol. 5(8): 144. = Comma Rennie, 1832 Conspectus Butts. Moths: 8. Type-species: Papilio c-album Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 477, no. 115, by monotypy. = Grapta W. Kirby, 1837 In: Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am. [4]: 292. Type-species: Vanessa (Grapta) c-argenteum W. Kirby, 1837, in: Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am. [4]: 292, pl. 3, figs. 6, 7 (= Papilio progne Cramer, 1775, Uitl. Kapellen 1(1): 9, pl. 5, figs. E, F; (8): 154 (index); synonym), by monotypy. = Kaniska Moore, [1899] Lepid. Ind. 4(41): 91. Type-species: Papilio canace Linnaeus, 1763, in: Johansson, Cent. Ins. Rar.: 23-24, no. 68, by original designation. Wahlberg and Nylin (2003), Cladistics 19(3): 221-222, and Wahlberg et al. (2005), Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 86(2): 250, determined this synonymy.
Polygonia faunus (W. H. Edwards, 1862) Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 14(5): 221, 222-223, no. 2; figured in W. H. Edwards (1870), Butts. N. Am. 1(5): pl. Grapta 1, figs. 1 ♂ D, 2 ♂ V, 3 ♀ D, 4 ♀ V. Original Combination: Grapta Faunus Type Locality: “Catskill Mountains, New York...Fort Simpson, at Albany River...Lake Winnipeg”; defined as “Hunter, Greene Co., New York” by dos Passos (1967), in: F. Brown, Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 93(3): 336. Types: Lectotype in CMNH, designated by dos Passos and F. Brown, in: F. Brown, 1967, Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 93(3): 338, fig. 5 ♂ D&V. ‡”virescens” Scudder, 1875 Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 2(4): 252, no. 76. Original Combination: [Polygonia Faunus] (= virescens) This name was mentioned in the synonymy of faunus without a description or indication; a nomen nudum.
Polygonia faunus hylas (W. H. Edwards, 1872) Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 4(1/2): 61, 68-69, no. 8; figured by W. H. Edwards (1875), Butts. N. Am. 2(4): pl. Grapta 2, figs. 1 ♂ D, 2 ♂ V, 3 ♀ D, 4 ♀ V. Original Combination: Grapta Hylas Type Locality: “Colorado”; defined as “near Berthoud Pass, with little doubt on the southern slope” by F. Brown (1934), J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 42(2): 161; listed as “Berthoud Pass, Colorado” by dos Passos (1967), in: F. Brown, Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 93(3): 339. [Clear Creek (S slope)-Grand counties] Types: Lectotype in CMNH, designated by F. Brown (1967), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 93(3): 341, fig. 6 ♂ D&V. = ‡”orpheus” Cross, 1936 Pan-Pac. Entomol. 12(4): 197. Original Combination: Polygonia hylas orpheus n. form Type Locality: “Deer Creek Canyon, near Denver, Colorado” [Douglas County] Types: Holotype in DNHC. The text clearly indicates that this taxon was described as an individual variant. ‡”silvius” Scott, 1984 J. Res. Lepid. 23(3): 209. Original Combination: Polygonia faunus hylas form silvius Proposed as a “form” with no nomenclatural standing; a nomen nudum. |
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