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Zestusa Lindsey, 1925

Zestusa Lindsey, 1925; Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18: 106 (repl. Plestia Mabille), TS: Plestia staudingeri Mabille
Plestia Mabille, 1888; Le Naturaliste (2) 2: 146 (preocc. Plestia Stål, [1870] (Hemiptera)), TS: Plestia staudingeri Mabille
Zestusa (Eudamini) ; [NL4A, 41]

Zestusa dorus (Edwards, 1882)

Arizona, SW.Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Mexico. See [About maps] Short-tailed Skipper Short-tailed Arizona Skipper
Eudamus dorus Edwards, 1882; Papilio 2: 140, TL: Arizona
Zestusa dorus, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Zestusa dorus, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Zestusa dorus, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Eudamus dorcus ; Maynard, 1901, (missp.)
Eudamus dorus ; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. natn. Mus., 52: 56
Plestia dorus ; Godman & Salvin, [1893], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 290, 3: pl. 76, f. 8-9; [BOW: pl. 22, f. 26]
Zestusa dorus ; [NACL, #3882]; [NL4A, #570]; [Opler]

Larva on Quercus, Q. arizonica [NAB]

Zestusa elwesi (Godman & Salvin, [1893])

Mexico. See [About maps] Plestia elwesi Godman & Salvin, [1893]; Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 289, 3: pl. 76, f. 5-7, TL: Mexico, Orizaba
Zestusa elwesi, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Zestusa elwesi, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Plestia elwesi ; [BOW: pl. 22, f. 26 (text)]
Zestusa staudingeri elwesi ;
Zestusa elwesi ; [NL4A, #571]

Zestusa levona Steinhauser, 1972

Mexico, El Salvador. See [About maps] Zestusa levona Steinhauser, 1972; J. Lep. Soc. 26 (3): 128, f. 1-2, TL: Hacienda Montecristo, Cerro Miramundo, Cloud Forest, El Salvador, 2300m
Zestusa levona, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Zestusa levona, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Zestusa levona ; [NL4A, #572]

Zestusa staudingeri (Mabille, 1888)

Mexico, Guatemala, .... See [About maps] Plestia staudingeri Mabille, 1888; Le Naturaliste (2) 2: 146, f. 1, TL: Guatemala
Plestia staudingeri ; Godman & Salvin, [1893], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 289, 3: pl. 76, f. 3-4
Zestusa staudingeri ; [NL4A, #573]

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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

[ILMB]

Interactive Listing of Mexican Butterflies

[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:

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

Edwards, 1882

Descriptions of new species of diurnal Lepidoptera taken by Mr. H. K. Morrison at Fort Grant and in Graham Mountains, Arizona. 1882 Papilio 2: 136-143, ?189

Godman & Salvin, [1893]

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

Steinhauser, 1972

The Genus Zestusa (Hesperiidae) in El Salvador with Description of a New Species J. Lep. Soc. 26 (3): 127-132, 5f

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