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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
 
   

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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