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Achlyodes Hübner, [1819]
Achlyodes Hübner, [1819]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (7): 108, TS: Papilio busirus Cramer
Eantis Boisduval, [1836]; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 1: pl. 13 [= pl. 9B], f. 6, TS: Urbanus thraso Hübner
= ; [NL4A]
Sebaldia Mabille, 1903; in Wytsman, Gen. Ins. 17 (A): 77, TS: Papilio busirus Cramer
= ; [NL4A, 42]
Achlyodes, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]

Achilodes ; Wallace, 1854, (missp.)
Achyliodes ; Weidemeyer, 1864, (missp.)
Achylodes ; Scudder, 1872, (missp.)
Achlyodes ; Godman & Salvin, [1895], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 394
Achylodes ; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 52: 58 (missp.)
Achliodes ; Abadia, 1913, (missp.)
Archylodes ; Gowdey, 1926, (missp.)
Achlyoides ; Monte, 1928, (missp.)
Archlyodes ; Bell, 1933, (missp.)
Eantes ; Hayward, 1933, (missp.)
Eanthis ; Hayward, 1933, (missp.)
Achyodes ; Freeman, 1944, (missp.)
Eeantis ; J. & W. Zikán, 1968, (missp.)
Achlyodes (Pyrgini) ; [NL4A, 42]

Achlyodes busirus (Cramer, [1779])
Mexico - Paraguay. See [About maps] Papilio busirus Cramer, [1779]; Uitl. Kapellen 3 (22): 119 (1780), pl. 261, f. A, B, C, TL: Surinam
Eantis busiris[sic?] ; Watson, 1893, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 (1): 57
Eantis busirus ; Godman & Salvin, [1895], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 404, 3: pl. 87, f. 6; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 740
Achlyodes busirus ; [BOW: pl. 80, f. 4]; [NL4A, #574]
Surinam, Colombia, ... Achlyodes bucolus Hübner, [1819]; (repl. name), TL: Surinam
= ; [NL4A, #574a]
var. obscura (Mabille, 1903) (Sebaldia); , TL: Colombia
= ; [NL4A, #574a]
Papilio busiris ; Jung, 1791, (missp.); Hemming, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.), Suppl.: 407 (missp.)
busivreus ; Weeks, 1911, (missp.)
bursirus ; DeVries, 1983, (missp.)
Achlyodes busirus busirus ; [NL4A, #574a]
A. b. heros Ehrmann, 1909
Mexico, ..., Venezuela Achlyodes busirus heros Ehrmann, 1909; , TL: Venezuela
Papilio sebaldus Fabricius, 1787; Mantissa Insectorum, 2: 89 (preocc. Stoll, 1781), TL: America
= ; [NL4A, #574b]
Achlyodes busirus heros, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Achlyodes busirus heros, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Achlyodes busirus heros ; [NL4A, #574b]
[heros-1.jpg] 620x571 (~38Kb) Belize, Central America, Photo © John Shuey

A. b. negro (Kaye, 1921)
Trinidad busirus negro (Kaye, 1921) (Eantis); , TL: Trinidad
Achlyodes busirus negro ; [NL4A, #574c]
A. b. rioja Evans, 1953
Brazil(Rio de Janeiro), ... Achlyodes busirus rioja Evans, 1953; , TL: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Achlyodes busirus rioja ; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 163; [NL4A, #574d]

Achlyodes minna Evans, 1953
Brazil(Bahia), .... See [About maps] Achlyodes minna Evans, 1953; , TL: Brazil, Bahia
Achlyodes minna ; [NL4A, #575]

Achlyodes mithridates (Fabricius, 1793)
-. See [About maps] Hesperia mithridates Fabricius, 1793; , TL: "Indiis"
Eantis mithridates ;
Achlyodes mithridates ; [NL4A, #576]
Jamaica Achlyodes janus Bell & Comstock, 1948; , TL: Jamaica
= ; [NL4A, #576a]
mithridate ; Latreille, [1924], (missp.)
mythridates ; Zhang, 1994, (missp.)
mithriades ; Salazar, 2001, (missp.)
Achlyodes mithridates mithridates ; [NL4A, #576a]
A. m. papinianus (Poey, 1832)
Trinidad, Cuba mithridates papinianus (Poey, 1832) (Hesperia); , TL: Cuba
pannianus ; Stahl, 1883, (missp.)
Achlyodes mithridates papinianus ; [NL4A, #576c]
Achlyodes papinianus ; [BOW: pl. 80, f. 6 (text)]
A. m. tamenund (Edwards, 1871)
Mexico, Texas Hesperia tamenund Edwards, 1871; , TL: Texas
Eantis tamenund, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Eantis tamenund, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Eantis tamenund, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
tamemund ; Kirby, 1877, (missp.)
Achlyodes thraso tamenund ; [NACL, #3939a]
Achlyodes tamenund ;
Eantis tamenund ; [Opler]
Achlyodes mithridates tamenund ; [NL4A, #576e]

Larva on Zanthoxylum fagara, Z. monophyllum, Citrus [USGS]

A. m. thraso (Hübner, [1807])
Greater Antilles, S.Mexico - to (Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil), Peru, Argentina Sickle-winged Skipper
Urbanus vetus thraso Hübner, [1807]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : pl. [151], TL: [Brazil]
Eantis peruvianus Mabille & Boullet, 1917; , TL: Peru
= ; [NL4A, #576f]

traso ; Poey, 1832, (missp.)
thrass ; Scudder, 1872, (missp.)
thrasso ; Weeks, 1901, (missp.)
thrace ; Köhler, 1923, (missp.)
mithradates ; Brown & Mielke, 1968, (missp.)
thrasos ; DeVries, 1983, (missp.)
Achlyodes thraso thraso ; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 163
Achlyodes thraso ; [BOW: pl. 80, f. 6]
Eantis thraso ; Godman & Salvin, [1895], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 405, 3: pl. 87, f. 7; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 740; Greeney & Warren, 2003, J. Lep. Soc. 57 (1): 43-46
Achlyodes mithridates thraso ; [NL4A, #576f]
Misidentified/misapplied:
Achylodes[sic] thraso; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 52: 58
Achlyodes thraso; [NACL, #3939]

Larva on Citrus, Zanthoxylum Greeney & Warren, 2003, J. Lep. Soc. 57 (1): 43-46

A. m. minor (Comstock, 1944)
Puerto Rico, Dominica Achlyodes minor Comstock, 1944; , TL: Dominica
Eantis minor ;
Achlyodes mithridates minor ; [NL4A, #576b]

Larva on Citrus, Zanthoxylum Greeney & Warren, 2003, J. Lep. Soc. 57 (1): 43 (Wolcott 1923, 1951)

A. m. sagra Evans, 1953
Haiti mithridates sagra Evans, 1953; , TL: Haiti
Achlyodes mithridates sagra ; [NL4A, #576d]

Achlyodes munroei Bell, 1956
Cuba, Bahamas. See [About maps] Achlyodes munroei Bell, 1956; , TL: Cuba
Achlyodes munroei ; Miller & Simon, 1998, Carib. J. Sci. 34 (3-4): 327-329; [NL4A, #577]

Larva on Zanthoxylum martinicense Fernández, 2004, J. Lep. Soc. 58 (1): 50


Achlyodes pallida (R. Felder, 1869)
Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia. See [About maps] Helias pallida R. Felder, 1869; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. 19: 478, TL: Mexico, Veracruz
Achlyodes ozotes Butler, 1870; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1870 (4): 515, TL: Venezuela; Colombia; Bolivia
= ; [NL4A, #578]
Achlyodes selva Evans, 1953; , TL: Mexico. Veracruz
= ; [NL4A, #578]
Achlyodes pallida, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Achlyodes pallida, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Achlyodes pallida, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Eantis pallida ; Godman & Salvin, [1895], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 406, 3: pl. 87, f. 8-10
Achlyodes pallia ; [BOW: pl. 80, f. 5]
Achlyodes pallida ; [NL4A, #578]


Unknown taxa

Achlyodes psimmithina Campos, 1927; (nom. nud.), TL: ;Ecuador
psimmithina ; [NL4A, 42]


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References:
[About maps]
Warning! The maps are automaticly generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[BAMONA]
Paul Opler, Harry Pavulaan, Ray Stanford, Michael Pogue; Butterflies and Moths of North America; Mountain Prairie Information Node
[BCA]
electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA
[BOA]
Interactive Listing of American Butterflies; Listado Interactivo de la Mariposas Americanas; Butterflies of America
[BOW]
Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X
[HBN]
Francis Hemming, 1937; HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2
[ILMB]
Interactive Listing of Mexican Butterflies
[JLS]
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society; the original J. Lep. Soc. articles
[John Shuey]
e-mail: jshuey at tnc.org; Director of Conservation Science; Indiana Office of The Nature Conservancy; http://www.nature.org
[NACL]
Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico
[NL4A]
Gerardo Lamas, 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea
[Opler]
Opler & Warren, 2003 (April); Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.
[USGS]
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center; http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/index.htm
[Wahlberg]
Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group


Some related literature:
Boisduval, [1836]
Histoire Naturelle des insectes: Spécies général des lépidoptères Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 1: 690pp, 24pls
Brown & Mielke, 1967
Lepidoptera of the Central Brazil Plateau. I. Preliminary list of Rhopalocera (continued) J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 145-168
Butler, 1870
Descriptions of some new diurnal Lepidoptera, chiefly Hesperiidae Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1870 (4): 485-520
Cramer, [1779]
Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) Uitl. Kapellen 3 (17-21): 1-104, pl. 193-252 (1779), (22): 105-128, pl. 253-264 ([1780]), (23-24): 129-176, pl. 265-288 (1780)
Dyar, 1903
A List of North American Lepidoptera and Key to the Literature of this Order of Insects Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 52: xix, 723pp
R. Felder, 1869
Diagnosen neuer von dem K. K. Oberlieutenant H. v. Hedemann in Mexico in den Jahren 1865-1867 gesammelter Lepidopteren. Erste Folge Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. 19: 465-480
Fernández, 2004
New range extensions, larval hostplant records and natural history observations of Cuban butterflies J. Lep. Soc. 58 (1): 48-50
Godman & Salvin, [1895]; Godman & Salvin, [1901]
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. (1887-1901) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 1-782, 3: pl. 1-112
Greeney & Warren, 2003
Notes on the life history of Eantis thraso (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae) in Ecuador J. Lep. Soc. 57 (1): 43-46
Hemming, 1967
Generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.), Suppl.: -
Hübner, [1807]
Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge, Vol. 1 (1806 - [1819]) Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : [1-4] (1807), [5-12] (1807-1809), [13-36] (1823-1824), pl. [1-2], [5-8], [12], [15], [29], [47] (1806), pl. [9], [11], [17], [21], [25-27], [32], [35], [43-44], [56], [60], [79], [102], [104], [116], [141], [148], [150-151], [155], [159], [200] (1807), pl. [19], [39], [57], [73], [82], [114], [157], [167], [170], [173], [187] (1807), pl. [3], [31], [37], [46], [54], [58], [62], [76], [84], [92], [95], [105], [112-113], [117], [137-138], [146], [154], [158], [180], [209] (1808), pl. [16], [28], [65], [89], [142], [160], [162], [166], [182], [188], [193] (1809), pl. [4], [22], [42], [53], [61], [88], [90], [97], [100], [107], [110], [118], [120], [140], [143], [149], [161], [171], [178], [184], [196], [202] (1809), pl. [10], [18], [30], [41], [51], [80], [144], [172], [189] (1810), pl. [36], [70], [87], [91], [101], [124], [129], [177], [183], [207], [210] (1811), pl. [20], [38], [45], [55], [85], [98], [103], [108], [136], [139], [152-153], [156], [163], [179], [186], [190], [205-206] (1812), pl. [13-14], [40], [48], [50], [67], [74], [86], [119], [121], [130], [135], [175-176], [197-199], [204-204], [212] (1813), pl. [72], [75], [77-78], [83], [93], [109], [111], [115], [128], [131], [165], [174], [194] (1813), pl. [24], [49], [52], [63-64], [66], [68-69], [71], [81], [123], [145], [181], [192] (1814), pl. [126], [132-134], [168] (1815), pl. [23], [96], [122], [125], [169], [195] (1816), pl. [33], [99], [127], [187], [185], [213] (1817), pl. [59], [106], [147], [164], [208], [211] (1818), pl. [34], [94], [191], [201] (1819), (Index Systematicus) [1-4] (1819 - April 1823)
Hübner, [1819]
Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, 1816-[1826] Verz. bek. Schmett. (1): [1-3], 4-16 (1816), (2): 17-32 (1819), (3): 33-48 (1819), (4): 49-64 (1819), (5): 65-80 (1819), (6): 81-96 (1819), (7): 97-112 (1819), (8): 113-128 (1819), (9): 129-144 (1819), (10): 145-160 (1819), (11): 161-176 (1819), (12): 177-192 (1820), (13): 193-208 (1820), (14): 209-224 (1821), (15): 225-240 (1821), (16): 241-256 (1821), (17): 257-272 (1823), (18): 273-288 (1823), (19): 289-304 (1823), (20): 305-320 (1825), (21): 321-336 (1825), (22): 337-352 (1825), (23-27): 353-431 ([1825])
Mabille, 1903
Genera Insectorum. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera. Fam. Hesperidae. [2] in Wytsman, Gen. Ins. 17 (A): 1-78pp
Miller & Simon, 1998
Rediscovery of the rare, "endemic" Cuban butterfly , Achlyodes munroei, with notes on its behaviour and possible origin Carib. J. Sci. 34 (3-4): 327-329
Watson, 1893
A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 (1): 3-133, pls 1-3


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