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CHECKLIST PAPILIONOIDEA W-PAL


A dynamic checklist of the Western Palearctic butterflies hyperlinked to the original descriptions
at species, genus and family level
(Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)

  

Michel Taymans

Sylvain Cuvelier


30.xii.2025
Introduction Papilionoidea Papilionidae Hesperiidae Pieridae   Riodinidae Lycaenidae Nymphalidae Sources Thx Updates
 
   

Gegenes nostrodamus (Fabricius, 1793)
 
 
Synonyms
[ORIG] Hesperia nostrodamus Fabricius, 1793. Entomol. Syst. 3(1): 328-329.  
    TL: NW Africa (Algeria).
[JS] Pamphila proclea Walker, 1870. Entomolologist 5: 56.  
    TL: Cairo (Egypt).  
[JS] Gegenes nostrodamus race pumilionimina Verity, 1931. Boll. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 63(6-7): 111.  
    TL: Viareggio, Lucca (Tuscany, Italy).  
Notes  
(1) List of the taxa not found in the Western Palearctic: G. nostrodamus karsana Moore, 1874.  
Bibliography  
Fabricius J. C. 1793.
Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta ; Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species ; adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Vol. 3, Pars I. Hafniae [= Copenhagen]: C. G. Proft, Fil. et Soc. (Ed.). pp. i-iv, 1-487. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia nostrodamus.		  
       
Verity R. 1931.
Distinzione, nomenclature e nueve localita itialiane delle Gegenes nostrodamus F. e pumilio Hoffm.
Bollettino della Società entomologica italiana 63(6-7): 106-112. (url not available)
New taxon: Gegenes nostrodamus pumilionimina.		  
       
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: Pamphila proclea.		  
       

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