Achlyodes

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
- = Achlyodes; [NL4A]
Sebaldia Mabille, 1903; in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum 17 (A): 77; TS: Papilio busirus Cramer
- = Achlyodes; [NL4A], 42

Achilodes; Wallace, 1854, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Achliodes; Abadia, 1913, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Achlyodes; Godman & Salvin, [1895], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 394; [P&N23]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Achlyodes (Pyrgini); [NL4A], 42
Achlyoides; Monte, 1928, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Achyliodes; Weidemeyer, 1864, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Achylodes; Scudder, 1872, (missp.); Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52: 58 (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Achyodes; Freeman, 1944, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Archlyodes; Bell, 1933, (missp.)
Archylodes; Gowdey, 1926, (missp.)
Eantes; Hayward, 1933, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Eanthis; Hayward, 1933, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Eantis; [P&N23]; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Eeantis; J. & W. Zikán, 1968, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Sebaldia; [NHM-BMW]

Achlyodes busirus (Cramer, [1779])

Mexico - Paraguay. See [maps]

Papilio busirus Cramer, [1779]; Uitl. Kapellen 3 (22): 119, pl. 261, f. A, B, C; TL: Surinam

Achlyodes busirus; [BOW]: pl. 80, f. 4; [NL4A], #574; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [BOA]
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

A. b. busirus Surinam, Colombia, ...

Achlyodes bucolus Hübner, [1819]; (repl. name); TL: Surinam
- = ; [NL4A], #574a
var. obscura (Mabille, 1903) (Sebaldia); ; TL: Colombia
- = ; [NL4A], #574a

Achlyodes bursirus; DeVries, 1983, (missp.)
Achlyodes busirus busirus; [NL4A], #574a; [iNaturalist] ; [BOA]
Achlyodes busivreus; Weeks, 1911, (missp.)
Papilio busiris; Jung, 1791, (missp.); Hemming, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. (Ent.) Suppl. 9: 407 (missp.)

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; [NL4A], #574b; [P&N23]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [BOA] ; [BAMONA]

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; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [BOA]

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 (2) (3): 163; [NL4A], #574d; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [BOA]

Achlyodes minna Evans, 1953

Brazil(Bahia), .... See [maps]

Achlyodes minna Evans, 1953; ; TL: Brazil, Bahia

Achlyodes minna; [NL4A], #575

Achlyodes mithridates (Fabricius, 1793)

-. See [maps]

Hesperia mithridates Fabricius, 1793; ; TL: "Indiis"

Achlyodes mithridates; [NL4A], #576; [LEPIFORUM]
Achlyodes thraso mithridates; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Eantis mithridates; ; [iNaturalist] ; [BOA] ; [BAMONA]

A. m. mithridates Jamaica

Achlyodes janus Bell & Comstock, 1948; ; TL: Jamaica
- = ; [NL4A], #576a

Achlyodes mithradates[sic, mithridates]; Brown & Mielke, 1968
Achlyodes mithriades[sic, mithridates]; Salazar, 2001
Achlyodes mithridate[sic, mithridates]; Latreille, [1924]
Achlyodes mithridates mithridates; [NL4A], #576a
Achlyodes mythridates[sic, mithridates]; Zhang, 1994

A. m. papinianus (Poey, 1832) Trinidad, Cuba

mithridates papinianus (Poey, 1832) (Hesperia); ; TL: Cuba

Achlyodes mithridates papinianus; [NL4A], #576c
Achlyodes pannianus[sic, papinianus]; Stahl, 1883
Achlyodes papinianus; [BOW]: pl. 80, f. 6 (text)
Achlyodes thraso papinianus; [LepIndex]; [CoL]

A. m. tamenund (Edwards, 1871) Mexico, Texas

Hesperia tamenund Edwards, 1871; Trans. amer. ent. Soc. 3 (3/4): 215; TL: Waco, Texas

Achlyodes mithridates tamenund; [NL4A], #576e
Achlyodes tamenund;
Achlyodes thraso tamenund; [NACL], #3939a
Eantis tamenund; [Opler]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [iNaturalist] ; [BOA] ; [BAMONA]
Pamphila tamemund[sic, tamenund]; Kirby, 1877

A. m. thraso (Hübner, [1807]) Greater Antilles, S.Mexico - to (Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil), Peru, Argentina Sickle-winged Skipper

Urbanus thraso Hübner, [1807]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 1: pl. [151]; TL: [Brazil]
Eantis peruvianus Mabille & Boullet, 1917; ; TL: Peru
- = ; [NL4A], #576f

Achlyodes mithridates thraso; [NL4A], #576f
Achlyodes thraso thraso; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2) (3): 163
Achlyodes thraso; [BOW]: pl. 80, f. 6; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Achlyodes thrasos[sic, thraso]; DeVries, 1983
Achlyodes thrass[sic, thraso]; Scudder, 1872
Achlyodes thrasso[sic, thraso]; Weeks, 1901
Achylodes[sic] thraso; [NAB], 744
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; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [BOA] ; [BAMONA]
Hesperia traso[sic, thraso]; Poey, 1832
Pamphila thrace[sic, thraso]; Köhler, 1923

Misidentified/misapplied:

Achylodes[sic] thraso; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52: 58
Achlyodes thraso; [NACL], #3939

A. m. minor (Comstock, 1944) Puerto Rico, Dominica

Achlyodes minor Comstock, 1944; ; TL: Dominica

Achlyodes mithridates minor; [NL4A], #576b
Achlyodes thraso minor; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Eantis minor; Greeney & Warren, 2003, J. Lep. Soc. 57 (1): 43 (note); [iNaturalist] ; [BOA] ; [BAMONA]

A. m. sagra Evans, 1953 Haiti

mithridates sagra Evans, 1953; ; TL: Haiti

Achlyodes mithridates sagra; [NL4A], #576d
Achlyodes thraso sagra; [LepIndex]; [CoL]

Achlyodes munroei Bell, 1956

Cuba, Bahamas. See [maps]

Achlyodes munroei Bell, 1956; Amer. Mus. Novit. 1778: 12; TL: Cuba

Achlyodes munroei; Miller & Simon, 1998, Carib. J. Sci. 34 (3-4): 327-329; Fernández, 2004, J. Lep. Soc. 58 (1): 50; [NL4A], #577; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]

Achlyodes pallida (R. Felder, 1869)

Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia. See [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; [BOW]: pl. 80, f. 5; [NL4A], #578; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [BAMONA]
Eantis pallida; Godman & Salvin, [1895], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 406, 3: pl. 87, f. 8-10; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [iNaturalist] ; [BOA]

Achlyodes psimmithina Campos, 1927; (nom. nud.); TL: ;Ecuador

psimmithina; [NL4A], 42

References:

[BAMONA] Opler, Pavulaan, Stanford & 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
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[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
[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
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
[MPG]
North American Moth Photographers Group
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Opler] Opler & Warren, 2003
Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.
[P&N23] Pohl & Nanz, 2023
Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, north of Mexico
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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Some related literature:

Bell, 1956
Descriptions of some new species of Neotropical Hesperiidae Amer. Mus. Novit. 1778 : 1-13, pl. 1-5
Boisduval, [1836]
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. Tome Premier Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 1 : 1-690, pl. 1-24
Brown & Mielke, 1967
Lepidoptera of the Central Brazil Plateau. I. Preliminary list of Rhopalocera J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2) (2): 77-106, (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. nat. Mus. 52 : 1-723
Edwards, 1871
Descriptions of new species of diurnal Lepidoptera found within the United States Trans. amer. ent. Soc. 3 (3/4) : 205-216
Fabricius, 1787
Mantissa insectorum sistens species nuper detectas adiectis synonymis, observationibus, descriptionibus, emendationibus Mantissa Insectorum 2 : 1-382
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: 1-741 (?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. (Ent.) Suppl. 9 : 5-509
[NACL]; Hodges, 1983
Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico Check List Lep. Am. N of Mexico
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], [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])
[NL4A]; Lamas, 2004
Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Mabille, 1903
Genera Insectorum. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera. Fam. Hesperidae in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum 17 (A): 1-78 (1903), (B): 79-142 (1904), (C): 143-182 (1904), (D): 183-210 (1904)
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
[NAB]; Pyle, 1981
Field Guide to North American Butterflies, National Audubon Society
Watson, 1893
A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 (1) : 3-133, pl. 1-3

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