Speyeria nokomis coerulescens (W. Holland, 1900)
(Nokomis 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 nokomis (W. H. Edwards, 1862)

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 14(5): 221-222, no. 1.

Original Combination: Argynnis Nokomis

Type Locality: “Rocky Mountains and mountains of California”; suggested to be “probably east of Ft. Apache, along the East Fork of the White River, Apache Co., Arizona” by Ferris and M. Fisher (1971), J. Lepid. Soc. 25(1): 47. The neotype is from “Sneffels Mts Ouray Co. Col.” and Grey (1989), J. Lepid. Soc. 43(1): 2-3, corroborates that this species occurs near there. [Mount Sneffels, Colorado]

Types: Neotype (#36195) in AMNH, designated by dos Passos and Grey (1947), Am. Mus. Novit. (1370): 9-10; figured by F. Brown (1965), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 91(3): 248, fig. 4 ♂ D&V.

S. nokomis occured along the Uncompahgre River, near Ridgway, Ouray County, at least through the 1980's (A. Warren, pers. comm. 2006).

=    nigrocaerulea (W. Cockerell & T. Cockerell, 1900)

Entomol. News 11(10): 622; figured by W. Cockerell and T. Cockerell (1902), Birds & Nature: unnumbered plate.

Original Combination: Argynnis nitocris var. nigrocaerulea

Type Locality: “Sapello Canon, Beulah, New Mexico” [San Miguel County]

Types: Holotype in USNM.

=    valesinoidesalba (Reuss, [1926]) (emended)

Dtsche. Entomol. Z. 1926(1): 69.

Original Combination: [Acidalia Semnopsyche] nokomis valesinoides-alba

Type Locality: Not stated.

Types: Holotype in ZMHB.

It is impossible at this time to accurately place this taxon in the synonymy of S. nokomis.

=    ‡”rufescens” (T. Cockerell, 1909)

Entomol. Rec. & J. Var. 21(7/8): 186.

Original Combination: Argynnis nitocris var. nigracaerulea [sic!] ab. rufescens

Type Locality: “At Beulah, in the Sapello Cañon” [San Miguel County, New Mexico]

Types: “Holotype” in USNM.

Speyeria nokomis coerulescens (W. Holland, 1900)

Entomol. News 10(11): 332-333; figured by W. Holland (1931), Butt. Book (rev. ed.): pl. 55, fig. 2 ♀ D (paralectotype), 3 ♂ D (lectotype), 4 ♀ V (paralectotype).

Original Combination: Argynnis nitocris var. coerulescens

Type Locality: “State of Chihuahua, Mexico...at the head of the Rio Piedras Verdes, in Chihuahua, at an elevation of from 7,100 to 7,300 feet above sea level in the Sierra Madre region”

Types: Lectotype in CMNH, designated by dos Passos and Grey (1947), Am. Mus. Novit. (1370): 10.

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