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(Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)

  

Michel Taymans

Sylvain Cuvelier


30.xii.2025
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Hesperia comma (Linnaeus, 1758)
 
 
Synonyms
[ORIG] Papilio (Plebejus urbicola) comma Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10)1: 484.  
    TL: Sweden.
[JS] Papilio virgula Retzius, 1783. Gen. Spec. Ins.: 31.  
    TL: Germany.  
[JS] Hesperia comma var. catena Staudinger, 1861. Entomol. Ztg. 22: 357.  
    TL: Lappland (Sweden).  
[JS] Hesperia comma var. alpina Harcourt-Bath, 1896. Entomologist 29(392): 21.  
    TL: Wengern-Scheideck Pass (Bern, Switzerland).  
[JS] Augiades comma var. pallida Staudinger, 1901. In Staudinger & Rebel, Cat. Lepid. pal. Fauneng.: 92.  
    TL: Turkey.  
[JS] Augiades comma var. apennina Rostagno, 1911. In: Rostagno & Zapelloni, Boll. Soc. Zool. Ital. (2)12(1-4): 10-11.  
    TL: Lazio (C Italy).  
[JS] Augiades benuncas Oberthür, 1912. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1912(16): 349-351.  
    TL: Lambèse (Algeria).  
[JS] Urbicola comma race aurata Verity, 1924. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 36(7/8): 107.  
    TL: Abetone (Tuscany, Italy).  
[JS] Urbicola comma race orae Verity, 1924. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 36(7/8): 107.  
    TL: Pertusola, Gulf of Spezia (Liguria, Italy).  
[JS] Urbicola comma race galliaemeridiei Verity, 1928. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 33(7): 124-125.  
    TL: Nîmes (Gard, S France).  
[JS] Urbicola comma race hibera Verity, 1928. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 33(7): 125.  
    TL: Albarracin (Aragon, Spain).  
[JS] Urbicola comma race alpapennina Verity, 1928. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 33(7): 125.  
    TL: Bolognola, Mts Sibillini (Italy).  
[JS] Urbicola comma race alpiumflava Verity, 1928. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 33(7): 125-126.  
    TL: Bolzano (NE Italy).  
[JS] Urbicola comma race macrocomma Verity, 1928. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 33(7): 126-127.  
    TL: Valdieri (Piedmont, NW Italy).  
[JS] Urbicola comma race superalpina Verity, 1928. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 33(7): 127.  
    TL: Stelvio, Vallée de Bornio (N Italy).  
[JS] Urbicola comma race altralpina Verity, 1928. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 33(7): 127.  
    TL: Haut de la route du Stelvio, Sulden, Ortler (N Italy).  
[JS] Hesperia comma race hemipallida Verity, 1940. Farf. Dirne Ital. 1: 116, pl. 4, fig. 66-69.  
    TL: Madonie (Sicily, S Italy).  
[JS] Hesperia comma race maroccana Picard, 1950. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc 28: 129-130.  
    TL: Afraou des Beni Abdallah (Moyen Atlas, Morocco).  
Notes  
(1) The specific name Papilio comma Linnaeus, 1758 was placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology, name no 2838 by Opinion 1240 (ICZN, 1983. The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature 40(1): 27-28).  
(2) List of the taxa not found in the Western Palearctic: H. comma shushkini Korshunov, 1995 ; H. comma dimila (Moore, [1875]) ; H. comma mixta Alpheraky, 1881 ; H. comma shandura Evans, 1949 ; H. comma lena Korshunov & P. Gorbunov, 1995 ; H. comma planula Korshunov, 1995 ; H. comma repugnans (Staudinger, 1892) ; H. comma lato (Grum-Grshimailo, 1891), …  
Bibliography  
Harcourt-Bath W. 1896.
Alpine variety of Hesperia comma.
The Entomologist 29(392): 21. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia comma alpina.		  
       
ICZN, 1983.
Opinion 1240. Hesperiidae Latreille, 1809 (Insecta, Lepidoptera) added to Official List.
The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature 40(1): 27-28. (url)		  
       
Linnaeus C. 1758.
III. Lepidoptera. Caroli Linnaei, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I ; Editio Decima, Reformata. Holmiae [Stockholm]: Laurentii Salvii (Ed.). pp. 458-542. (url)
New taxon: Papilio comma.		  
       
Oberthür C. 1912.
Description d'une nouvelle espèce algérienne d’Hesperiidae [Lep].
Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 1912(16): 349-351. (url)
New taxa: Augiades benuncas.		  
       
Picard J. 1950.
Études sur les Hesperiidae du Maroc.
Bulletin de la Société des Sciences naturelles du Maroc 28: 110-135. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia comma maroccana.		  
       
Retzius A. J. 1783.
Genera et species insectorum e generosissimi auctoris scriptis extraxit, digessit, latine quoad partem reddidit, et terminologiam insectorum Linneanam additit. Lipsiae: Apud Siegfried Lebrecht Crusium (Ed.). pp. 1-220. (url)
New taxon: Papilio virgula.		  
       
Rostagno F. & Zapelloni L. 1911.
Rhopalocera Faunae romanae.
Bollettino della Società zoologica italiana (2)12(1-4): 1-28. (url)
New taxon: Augiades comma apennina.		  
       
Staudinger O. 1861.
I. Macrolepidoptera.
Entomologische Zeitung 22(10-12): 342-404. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia comma catena.		  
       
Verity R. 1924.
Additions and corrections to ‘List of Grypocera and Rhopalocera of Peninsular Italy’.
The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 36(7/8): 106-111. (url)
New taxa: Urbicola comma aurata, Urbicola comma orae.		  
       
Verity R. 1928.
Les variations géographiques de l'Urbicola comma L. dans l'Europe occidentale [Lep. Gryphocera].
Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 33(7): 124-127. (url)
New taxa: Urbicola comma galliaemeridiei, Urbicola comma hibera, Urbicola comma alpapennina, Urbicola comma alpiumflava , Urbicola comma macrocomma, Urbicola comma superalpina, Urbicola comma altralpina.		  
       
Verity R. 1940.
Le Farfalle diurne d'Italia. Volume primo, Considerazioni generali e Superfamiglia Hesperides. Firenze: Marzocco SA (Ed.). pp. i-xxxiv, 1-131, pl. 1-4, pl. [morphology] I-II. (url not available)
New taxon: Hesperia comma hemipallida.		  
       

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