Satyrium saepium

Thecla saepium from Etudes de lépidoptérologie comparée.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Eumaeini
Genus: Satyrium
Species: Satyrium saepium
Subspecies: (9) per Butterflies of America
S. s. caliginosum – S. s. chalcis – S. s. chlorophora – S. s. fulvescens – S. s. latalinea – S. s. obscurofuscum – S. s. provo – S. s. rubrotenebrosum – S. s. saepium – S. s. subaridum

Name

Satyrium saepium (Boisduval, 1852).

Type locality: "Californie" - USA, California. See also Emmel et al, 1998: 9.

Lectotype: male USNM designated by Emmel et al, 1998: 10, figs 18,19.

Synonymy

• Thecla saepium Boisduval, 1852: 288; Oberthur, 1913: pl.235, fig. 1922.
• Strymon saepium okanagana (var.) McDunnough, 1944: 190. TL: Beachland, British Columbia, HT: CNC #5502. Synonymised by Warren, 2005 Butterflies of Oregon: 154.
• Ignata illepida Johnson, 1992: 195, fig. 191O. TL: "Sierra, Paramo, Bolivia" [sic - in error]. HT: BMNH. Synonymised by Robbins & Lamas, 2002: 204.
• Satyrium saepium (Boisduval); Bridges, 1994: VIII.115.

References

• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Boisduval, J.-A. 1852. Lepidoptères de la Californie. Annales de la Société entomologique de France 10(2): 275–324. BHL. Reference page. 
• Emmel, T., Emmel, J. & Mattoon, S., 1998. The Types of Californian Butterflies Named by Boisduval... In Systematics of Western North American Butterflies. 2: 3-78. Reference page. 
• Johnson, K. 1992. Genera and species of the Neotropical 'elfin'-like hairstreak butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. Theclinae). Rep. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Wis. (Stevens Point) 22(2): 136–279. ill. PDF. Reference page. 
• McDunnough, J., 1944. Two new races of Theclinae from Southern British Columbia (Lepidoptera). The Canadian Entomologist 76(9): 190–191. Reference page. 
• Oberthür, C., 1913. Études de Lépidoptérologie Comparée. 8: 9-88, pls 198-231. Reference page. 
• Robbins, R. K. & Lamas, G. 2002. Nomenclatural Changes in the Neotropical Eumaeini (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Theclinae) Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 19 (Supl. 1): 197–214. PDF. Reference page. 

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