Subfamily Pyrginae Burmeister, 1878
       
Synonyms  
[ORIG] Pyrgidae Burmeister, 1878. Descr. phys. RĂ©p. Argentine 5: 245-246.  
    TG: Pyrgus HĂĽbner, [1819].  
[SS] Antigonini Mabille, 1878. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 21: 28, nota.  
    TG: Antigonus HĂĽbner, [1819].  
[JH] Pyrginae Speyer, 1879. Entomol. Ztg. 40: 484.  
    TG: Pyrgus HĂĽbner, [1819].  
Notes  
(1) List of the Tribe found in the Western Palearctic: Carcharodini Verity, 1940 ; Erynnini Brues & Melander, 1932 ; Pyrgini Burmeister, 1878.  
(2) List of the Tribe not found in the Western Palearctic: Achlyodini Burmeister, 1878 ; …  
(3) Antigonini Mabille, 1878 is a senior synonym of Pyrgidae Burmeister, 1878 but by application of Art. 35.5 of the Code ICZN - Precedence for names in use at higher rank - Pyrgidae Burmeister, 1878 have priority.  
Bibliography  
Burmeister C. H. C. 1878.
Description physique de la République Argentine d’après des observations personnelles et étrangères. Tome cinquième,  Lépidoptères, Première partie. Buénos-Ayres (Argentina): imprimerie de Paul-Émile Coni (Ed.). pp. i-vi, 1-526. (url)
  
  New taxon: Pyrgidae.  
       
Mabille P. 1878.
Catalogue des Hespérides.
Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique 21(1): 12-44. (url)
  
  New taxon: Antigonini.
Antigonini Mabille, 1878: genus Aethilla, Thanaos, Camptopleura, Anastrus, Antigonus, Leucochitonea, Spilothyrus, Pyrgus.		  
       
Speyer A. 1879.
Die Hesperiden-Gattungen des europäischen Faunengebiets - II. Nachträge - Das Flügelgeäder.
Entomologische Zeitung 40: 477-500. (url)
  
  New taxon: Pyrginae.  
       
Archives of Western Palearctic Lepidoptera
Editors-in-Chief: Michel Taymans & Sylvain Cuvelier