Speyeria coronis semiramis (W. H. Edwards, 1886)
(Coronis Fritillary)

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Synonymy

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

Genus Speyeria Scudder, 1872

4th Ann. Rept. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 44. Type-species: Papilio idalia Drury, 1773, Ill. Nat. Hist. 1: 25, pl. 13, figs. 1-3 (1770); 2: index (1773), by original designation.

=    Semnopsyche Scudder, 1875

Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 2(4): 238, 258-259, no. 44. Type-species: Papilio diana, Cramer, 1777, Uitl. Kapellen 2(9): 4 pl. 98, figs. D, E; 2(16): 148 (index), by original designation. Grey (1989), J. Lepid. Soc. 43(1): 1-2, determined this synonymy.

=    Neoacidalia Reuss, 1926

Dtsche. Entomol. Z. 1926(1): 69. Type-species: Papilio cybele Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Entomol.: 516, no. 311, by original designation.

=    Mesoacidalia Reuss, 1926

Dtsche. Entomol. Z. 1926 (1): 69. Type-species: Papilio aglaja Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 481, no. 140, by original designation.

=    Proacidalia Reuss, 1926

Dtsche. Entomol. Z. 1926 (1): 69. Type-species: Argynnis clara Blanchard, 1844; in Jacquemont, Voy. Inde 4 (Zool.): 20, pl. 2, figs. 2, 3, by original designation.

Speyeria coronis (Behr, 1864)

In: W. H. Edwards, Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philad. 3(3): 435, no. 2; figured by W. H. Edwards (1868), Butts. N. Am. [1](8): pl. Argynnis 5, figs. 3 ♀ D, 4 ♀ V (as nevadensis), and (1887), Butts. N. Am. 3(2): pl. Argynnis 14, figs. 1 ♂ D, 2 ♂ V, 3 ♀ D, 4 ♀ V (as nevadensis).

Original Combination: Argynnis Coronis

Type Locality: “California” implied from the title of the paper; defined as “Gilroy, [Santa Clara County] California” by W. H. Edwards (1887), Butts. N. Am. 3(2): [98]; subsequently defined as “Alma, Santa Clara County, California” by dos Passos and Grey (1947), Am. Mus. Novit. (1370): 11, in error.

Types: Neotype in CMNH; this specimen was first designated as lectotype by dos Passos and Grey (1947), Am. Mus. Novit. (1370): 11, but subsequently determined not to be a syntype and redesignated as neotype by dos Passos and Grey (1956), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 91(3): 353; figured by J. Emmel et al. (1998), Syst. W. N. Am. Butts.: 109, figs. 4 ♂ D, 5 ♂ V.

Behr (1862), Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. [1]2(12): 173, no. 2, discussed this species without naming it.

=    californica (Skinner, 1917)

Entomol. News 28(7): 328; cited W. H. Edwards (1887), Butts. N. Am. 3(2): pl. Argynnis 4, figs. 1 ♂ D, 2 ♂ V, 3 ♀ D, 4 ♀ V (as coronis).

Original Combination: Argynnis californica

Type Locality: “California...at Alma, Santa Clara County”

Types: Holotype (#7034) in ANSP; a paralectotype figured by W. Holland (1931), Butt. Book (rev. ed.): pl. 56, fig. 5 ♂ V.

Speyeria coronis semiramis (W. H. Edwards, 1886)

Can. Entomol. 18(4): 61-62, no. 1.

Original Combination: Argynnis Semiramis

Type Locality: “San Bernardino, California” [San Bernardino County]

Types: Lectotype in CMNH, designated by dos Passos and Grey (1947), Am. Mus. Novit. (1370): 11; figured by F. Brown (1965), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 91(3): 261, fig. 6 ♂ D&V.

                         =    ‡”bernardensis” (Gunder, 1933)

Can. Entomol. 65(8): 172-173.

Original Combination: Argynnis semiramis tr. f. bernardensis

Type Locality: “Camp Wasew[a]gan for Boy Scouts, San Bernardino Mts., San Bernardino Co., Calif.” [California]

Types: “Holotype” in AMNH.

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