Genus Pelopidas Walker, 1870
       
Synonyms
[ORIG] Pelopidas Walker, 1870. Entomologist 5(76): 56.  
    TS: Pelopidas midea Walker, 1870 by monotypy.
[JS] Chapra Moore, [1881]. Lepid. Ceylon 1(4): 169.  
    TS: Hesperia mathias Fabricius, 1798 by original designation.
Notes  
(1) List of the species found in the Western Palearctic: Pelopidas thrax (Hübner, [1821]).  
(2) List of the genus not found in the Western Palearctic: P. mathias (Fabricius, 1798) ; P. assamensis (Nicéville, 1882) ; P. conjuncta (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) ; P. sinensis (Mabille, 1877) ; …  
Bibliography  
Moore F. [1881].
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. [Volume I]. pp. i-xii, 1-190, pl. 1-71. (url).		  
  New taxon: Chapra.  
       
Walker F. 1870.
A list of the butterflies collected by J. K. Lord Esq., in Egypt, along the african shore of the Red Sea, and in Arabia; with descriptions of the species new to science. The Entomologist 5(76): 48-57. (url)		  
  New taxon: Pelopidas.  
 
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