Satyrium semiluna maculadistinctum Mattoon & Austin, 1998
(Sagebrush Sooty Hairstreak)

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Synonymy

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

Genus Satyrium Scudder, 1876

Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 3: 106, no. 8. Type-species: Lycaena fuliginosa W. H. Edwards, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 13(6): 160, 164, no. 10, by original designation. The generic synonymy below generally follows Clench (1979), J. Lepid. Soc. 32(4): 277-281, with the caveat that there is disagreement over the rank of several taxa. The group is in need of revision.

Satyrium semiluna Klots, 1930

Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 25(3): 161-162, no. 400, figs. 5 ♂ D, 6 ♂ V (holotype).

Original Combination: Satyrium fuliginosum semiluna

Type Locality: “Half Moon Ranch, Moose P. O., Jackson Hole, Wyo.” [Teton County, Wyoming]

Types: Holotype in AMNH.

Satyrium semiluna maculadistinctum Mattoon & Austin, 1998

Syst. W. N. Am. Butts. (53): 685-686, figs. 17 ♂ D, 18 ♂ V (holotype); 19 ♀ D, 20 ♀ V.

Original Combination: Satyrium fuliginosum maculadistinctum

Type Locality: “Nevada: Lyon County; Sweetwater Mountains, west slope of East Sister, 2633 m, T8N R24E S28”

Types: Holotype in MGCL.

=    ‡”immaculata” Gunder, 1927

Can. Entomol. 59(12): 283, no. 6, pl. A, fig. 6 ♀ V (“holotype”).

Original Combination: Satyrium fuliginosum tr. f. immaculata

Type Locality: “McGee's Creek on highway, nr. Mammoth, Mono Co., Calif.”

Types: “Holotype” in AMNH.

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