Polythrix mexicanus H. Freeman, 1969
(Mexican Longtail)

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Synonymy

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

Genus Polythrix E. Watson, 1893

Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893(1): 16, 19. Type-species: Eudamus metallescens Mabille, 1888, Naturaliste (2)2(28): 108-109, fig. 2, by original designation.

Polythrix mexicanus H. Freeman, 1969

J. Lepid. Soc. 23(suppl. 2): 10, pl. 5, figs. 1 ♂ D, 2 ♂ V (holotype); 3 ♀ D, 4 ♀ V.

Original Combination: Polythrix mexicanus

Type Locality: “Seven miles south of Valles (grounds of Hotel Covadonga), San Luis Potosi, Mexico”

Types: Holotype in AMNH, as noted by H. Freeman (1989), J. Lepid. Soc. 43(3): 244.

Species-genus gender conformation is mexicana.

For details on the species-level status of this taxon, see H. Freeman (1969), J. Lepid. Soc. 23(suppl. 2): 10, (1979), J. Lepid. Soc. 33(2): 124-128, and Austin and A. Warren (2002), Dugesiana 9(2): 19.

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