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Michel Taymans

Sylvain Cuvelier


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Pyrgus (Ateleomorpha) armoricanus (Oberthür, 1910)
 
 
Synonyms
[ORIG] Syrichthus alveus f. armoricanus Oberthür, 1910. Ét. Lépid. comp. 4: 411-413, 681, pl. 57, fig. 509-517.  
    TL: Rennes (C France).
[JS] Hesperia persica Reverdin, 1913. Bull. Soc. Lépid. Genève 2(4): 218-224, pl. 21, fig. 4, pl. 22, fig. 9.  
    TL: Kuldsar (Iran).  
[IFS] Hesperia armoricanus gen.II fulvoinspersa Verity, 1919. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 31(2): 27.  
    TL: -.  
[JS] Syrichthus armoricanus var. corsicus Oberthür, 1919. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 1919(7): 130.  
    TL: Corsica (S France).  
[JS] Hesperia armoricanus race rufosatura Verity, 1925. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 37(5): 73.  
    TL: Fontebuona di Vaglia (Tuscany, Italy).  
[JS] Hesperia armoricanus petheri Romei, 1927. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 39(9): 127.  
    TL: Cuenca (C Spain).  
[JS] Hesperia persica var. prostanae Pfeiffer, 1927. Mitt. Münch. Entomol. Ges. 17: 45-46.  
    TL: inner Anatolia (Turkey).  
[JS] Hesperia (Ateleomorpha) armoricanus f. cacaotica Verity, 1929. Trab. Mus. Cienc. Nat. Barc. 11(4): 15.  
    TL: Valle umida del Camaione (prov. Lucca, Italy).  
[JS] Hesperia armoricanus philonides Hemming, 1931. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10)8: 534-535.  
    TL: Khan Ghaffa (Lebannon).  
[JS] Hesperia armoricanus ssp. disjuncta Alberti, 1940. Mitt. Münch. Entomol. Ges. 30(1): 252-253, pl. 2, fig. 7a.  
    TL: Halle (Germany).  
[SN] Pyrgus armoricanus race fulvoinspersa Verity, 1940. Farfalle diurne Italia 1: 70, pl. 3, fig. 14-31.  
    TL: Valle del Camaione (Lucca), Monte Conca (Firenze) (Italy) ; Stat. nov. for Hesperia armoricanus gen.II fulvoinspersa Verity, 1919.  
[JS] Pyrgus armoricanus maroccanus Picard, 1950. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc 28: 121-122.  
    TL: Ifrane (Maroc).  
Notes  
(1) List of the taxa not found in the Western Palearctic: Pyrgus armoricanus lecerfi Verity, 1928 (= Pyrgus armoricanus reverdini Le Cerf, 1913) ; …  
Bibliography  
Alberti B. 1940.
Über einige neue oder wenig bekannte palaearktische Hesperiden nebst Revision der Hesperia-staudingeri-Gruppe.
Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 30: 235-254, pl. 2. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia armoricanus disjuncta.		  
       
Hemming F. 1931
Description of three Palaearctic Butterflies.
The Annals and magazine of natural history (10)8 : 534-536. (url not available)
New taxon: Hesperia philonides.		  
       
Oberthür C. 1910.
Notes pour servir à établir la faune française et algérienne des Lépidoptères (suite).
Études de lépidoptérologie comparée 4: 15-691, pl. 35-58. (url)
New taxon: Syrichthus alveus armoricanus.		  
       
Oberthür C. 1919.
Classification des espèces et variétés de Syrichthus [Lep. Hesperiidae] de l'Europe occidentale et de l'Algérie.
Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 1919(7): 128-132. (url)
New taxon: Syrichthus armoricanus corsicus.		  
       
Pfeiffer E. 1927.
Ein Beitrag zur Insektenfauna von Kleinasien [Anatolien].
Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 17: 35-55. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia persica prostanae.		  
       
Picard J. 1950. Études des Hesperiidae du Maroc.
Bulletin de la Société des sciences naturelles du Maroc 28: 100-135. (url)
New taxon: Pyrgus armoricanus maroccanus.		  
       
Reverdin J.-L. 1913.
Notes sur les genres Hesperia et Carcharodus.
Bulletin de la Société lépidoptérologique de Genève 2(4): 212-237, pl. 21-22. (url not available)
New taxon: Hesperia persica.		  
       
Romei E. 1927.
Notes of Collecting in Spain in 1925-26.
The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 39(9): 127-129. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia armoricanus petheri.		  
       
Verity R. 1919. Seasonal polymorphism and races of some european Grypocera and Rhopalocera.
The entomologist's record and Journal of Variation 31(2): 26-31. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia armoricanus fulvoinspersa.		  
       
Verity R. 1925.
New races and forms of Palaearctic Grypocera (continued from page 57).
The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 37(5): 72-77. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia armoricanus rufosatura.		  
       
Verity R. 1929. Notes sur les ‘Hesperiidi’ européens et liste de ceux de la Catalogne.
Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona 11(4): 5-18. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia (Ateleomorpha) armoricanus cacaotica.		  
       
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)
New taxon: Pyrgus armoricanus fulvoinspersa.		  
Reference publications  
Jong R. de -. 1972.
Systematics and geographic history of the genus Pyrgus in the Palaearctic region (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae).
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 115(1): 1-121, pl. 1-6. (url)		  
       

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