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Satyrium t.
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(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 titus (Fabricius, 1793)
Satyrium titus titus (Fabricius, 1793) Entomol. Syst. 3(1): 297, no. 130; cited Jones’ Icones vol. 6, pl. 44, fig. 2. Original Combination: H[esperia]. R[urales]. Titus Type locality: “Anglia”; stated to be “probably Newfoundland” by L. Miller and F. Brown (1981), Mem. Lepid. Soc. (2): 99; suggested to be “Millhaven Plantation, Screven County, Georgia” by Gatrelle (2004), Tax. Rep. Int. Lepid. Surv. 4(6): 7. Types: Lectotype (#Rh1060) in BMNH, designated by Gatrelle (2004), Tax. Rep. Int. Lepid. Surv. 4(6): 2, fig. 3 ♀ V, as “holotype.” I.C.Z.N. Opinion 503 placed this name on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology as name no. 1605. = mopsus (Hübner, 1818) Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. 1: pl. [24], figs. 135 ♂ D, 136 ♂ V [1813], 24, no. 48 (1818, name given). Original Combination: Chrysophanus Mopsus Type Locality: “Georgien in Florida”; neotype from “Millhaven Plantation, Screven Co., Georgia.” Types: Type(s) probably lost; neotype in MGCL, designated by Gatrelle (2004), Tax. Rep. Int. Lepid. Surv. 4(6): 7, fig. 5 ♀ V. Rusticus mopsus Hübner, 1808, Erste Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett.: 6, was described in a document that was suppressed by I.C.Z.N. Opinion 789. |
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