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Polygonus Hübner, [1825]

Polygonus Hübner, [1825]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pl. [144], TS: Polygonus lividus Hübner
Acolastus Scudder, 1872; 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 71 (preocc. Acolastus Gerstaecker, 1855 (Coleoptera)), TS: Hesperia savignyi Latreille

= ; [NL4A, 38]

Nennius Kirby, [1902]; in Hübner, Samml. exot. Schmett. (Wytsman's facsim.), Additional Notes: 105 (unnec. repl. for Polygonus Hübner), TS: Polygonus lividus Hübner
Polygonius ; Spitz, 1932, (missp.)
Poligonus ; Hayward, 1933, (missp.)
Polygenus ; Hemming, 1967, (missp.)
Acolastus ; Godman & Salvin, [1893], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 303
Polygonus (Eudamini) ; [NL4A, 38]

Polygonus leo (Gmelin, [1790])

Argentina, .... See [About maps] Hammock Skipper
Papilio leo Gmelin, [1790]; (repl. name)
Polygonus leo, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Polygonus leo ; [NACL, #3872]; [NL4A, #442]; [Opler]

484x510 (~28Kb) Belize, Central America, Photo © John Shuey

P. l. leo

Brazil - Florida, Hispaniola, Haiti Papilio amyntas Fabricius, 1775; Syst. Ent.: 533 (preocc. Poda, 1761), TL: America

= ; [NL4A, #442a]

Astraptes lividus Hübner, [1819]; (nom. nud.)
Polygonus lividus Hübner, [1825]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pl. [144], TL: [Hispaniola]

= ; [NL4A, #442a]

Polygonus leo ishmael Evans, 1952; , TL: Haiti

= ; [NL4A, #442a]

Hesperia amyntas ; Plötz, 1882, Stett. ent. Ztg 43 (7-9): 329

Acolastus amyntas ; Godman & Salvin, [1893], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 304, 3: pl. 77, f. 9; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 734 Erycides amyntas ; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 52: 56 lividius ; Burmeister, 1878, (missp.) amaytas ; Skinner, 1899, (missp.) myntas ; Mabille, 1903, (missp.) Polygonus leo lividus ; [BOW: pl. 85, f. 21] Polygonus leo leo ; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 159; [NL4A, #442a]

P. l. arizonensis (Skinner, 1911)

Arizona, S.California, Arizona, W.Texas, S.New Mexico, Mexico leo arizonensis (Skinner, 1911) (Erycides); , TL: Arizona
Polygonus leo arizonensis, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Polygonus leo arizonensis, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Polygonus leo arizonensis ; [NACL, #3872b]; [NL4A, #442b]

P. l. hagar Evans, 1952

Jamaica Polygonus leo hagar Evans, 1952; , TL: Jamaica
Polygonus leo hagar ; [NL4A, #442c]

P. l. histrio Röber, 1925

leo histrio Röber, 1925; , TL: "Panama"
Polygonus leo histrio, Butterflies of Southeastern Arizon [Bruce Walsh]
Polygonus leo histrio ; [NL4A, #442d]

P. l. pallida Röber, 1925

Peru Polygonus pallida Röber, 1925; , TL: Peru
Polygonus leo pallida ; [NL4A, #442e]

Polygonus savigny (Latreille, [1824])

St. Christoper, Montserrat, St.-Barthélémy, S.Florida, Antilles, Argentina, CA, SA. See [About maps] Manuel's Skipper
Hesperia savigny Latreille, [1824]; in Godart, Ency. méth. 9 (2): 741, TL: "Antilles"
Polygonus savigny savigny, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Polygonus savigny savigny, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Polygonus savigny, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Polygonus manueli ; [BOW: pl. 85, f. 21 (text)]; [NACL, #3873]
Acolastus savignyi ; Scudder, 1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 71
Polygonus savignyi ; (missp.)
Polygonus leo savigny ; NACL, #3872a
Polygonus savigny ; [NL4A, #443]; [Opler]

P. s. savigny

Brazil(Santa Catarina), ...? Polygonus manueli Bell & Comstock, 1948; , TL: Brazil, Santa Catarina

= Polygonus savignyi ; Mielke & Casagrande, 2002, Rev. Bras. Zool. 19 (suppl. 1): (27-76)
= ; [NL4A, #443a]

Polygonus mimeticus J. & W. Zikán, 1968; (nom. nud.)

= ; [NL4A, #443a]

savignyi ; Westwood, 1852, (missp.)
manneli ; Silva et al., 1968, (missp.)
manuelli ; R. G. Maza & White 1990, (missp.)
Polygonus manueli manueli ; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 159
Polygonus savigny savigny ; [NL4A, #443a]

475x496 (~27Kb) Belize, Central America, Photo © John Shuey

Larva on Muelleria moniliformis, (for manueli) [NAB]

P. s. punctus Bell & Comstock, 1948

St. Vincent savigny punctus Bell & Comstock, 1948; , TL: St. Vincent
Polygonus savigny punctus ; [NL4A, #443b]

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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

[Bruce Walsh]

Bruce Walsh; e-mail: Bruce Walsh; The Moths of Southeastern Arizona; Butterflies of Southeastern Arizon

[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

[NAB]

Pyle, R. M.; National Audubon Society: Field Guide to North American Butterflies; 1981; ISBN 0-394-51914-0

[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.

Some related literature:

Brown & Mielke, 1967

Lepidoptera of the Central Brazil Plateau. I. Preliminary list of Rhopalocera (continued) J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 145-168

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

Fabricius, 1775

Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Syst. Ent.: 832pp

Godman & Salvin, [1893]; Godman & Salvin, [1901]

Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. (1887-1901) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 1-782, 3: pl. 1-112

Hübner, [1825]

Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge, Vol. 2 ([1819] - [1827]) Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pl. [90], [180], [223] (1819), pl. [2], [12], [16], [78], [141], [182] (1820), pl. [11], [13], [24], [77], [83], [97], [102-103], [108-109], [116-117], [122], [147], [150], [164], [183], [195], [197], [212-214] (1821), pl. [14], [18-19], [26], [38-39], [43], [68], [70-71], [74], [84], [86], [92], [94-95], [106], [114], [121], [161], [169], [174], [177-178], [184], [194], [200], [204-205], [207-208], [210] (1821), pl. [33], [72], [76], [115], [131], [138-139], [153], [198], [211], [218], [220] (1822), pl. [32], [75], [81], [93], [105], [129] (1822), pl. [1], [6], [22-23], [25], [27], [29-31], [34-37], [40-42], [48], [50-53], [56], [58-59], [64-66], [69], [73], [87], [89], [91], [96], [98-101], [110], [124], [128], [130], [132-137], [142], [155-158], [160], [162-163], [165-167], [170-173], [175-176], [187-188], [196], [199], [201-202], [206], [215-216], [219], [222], [224] (1823), pl. [54], [118], [143], [149], [159] [179], [181], [185], [203], [217] (1824), pl. [3-5], [8-10], [15], [20], [45], [49], [55], [60], [62-63], [67], [79-80], [88], [104], [111-113], [120], [125], [127], [140], [144-146], [148], [151-152], [154], [168], [189-193], [221], [225] (1825), pl. [7], [17], [21], [28], [44], [46-47], [57], [61], [82], [123], [126] (1826), pl. [85], [119], [186], [209] (1827), (Index Systematicus) [1-4] (1827-1832)

Latreille, [1824]

Encylopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes in Godart, Ency. méth. 9 (2): 329-828

Mielke & Casagrande, 2002

Notas taxonõmicas em Hesperiidae neotropicais, com descrições de novos taxa Rev. Bras. Zool. 19 (suppl. 1): 27-76

Plötz, 1882

Die Hesperiinen -- Gattung Hesperia Aut. und ihre Arten. (1) & (2) Stett. ent. Ztg 43 (7-9): 314-344, (10-12): 436-456

Scudder, 1872

A systematic Revision of some of the American Butterflies; with brief notes on those known to occur in Essex County, Mass. 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 24-83

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