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Michel Taymans

Sylvain Cuvelier


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Pyrgus (Pyrgus) malvoides (Elwes & Edwards, 1897)
 
 
Synonyms
[ORIG] Hesperia malvoides Elwes & Edwards, 1897. Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 14(4): 156, 160, pl. 23, fig. 27-27a.  
    TL: Biarritz (SW France).
[JS] Hesperia malvae race [ab.?] australis Tutt, 1906. Nat. Hist. Brit. Lepid. 8: 224.  
    TL: Draguignan (S France).  
[JS] Hesperia malvae race pyrenaica Tutt, 1906. Nat. Hist. Brit. Lepid. 8: 225.  
    TL: Vernet-les-Bains (S France).  
[JS] Hesperia malvae race andalusica Tutt, 1906. Nat. Hist. Brit. Lepid. 8: 225-226.  
    TL: Canales de la Sierra (Spain).  
[JH] Hesperia malvae race alpina Tutt, 1906. Nat. Hist. Brit. Lepid. 8: 226.  
    TL: Cogne (Aosta, NW Italy) ; nec Erschoff, 1874. Fedsch. Lepid. Turkestan : 24.
[JS] Syrichthus malvae f. fritillans Oberthür, 1910. Ét. Lép. comp. 4: 393-394, 679, pl. 54, fig. 461-463.  
    TL: Vernet-les-Bains (S France).  
[JS] Hesperia malvoides race tutti Verity, 1919. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 31(2): 28.  
    TL: Locarno (Italy).  
[JS] Hesperia (Hemiteleomorpha) malvoides race modestior Verity, 1929. Trab. Mus. Cienc. Nat. Barc. 11(4): 6-7.  
    TL: Italy.  
[JS] Hesperia (Hemiteleomorpha) malvoides f. melotiformis Verity, 1929. Trab. Mus. Cienc. Nat. Barc. 11(4): 6-7.  
    TL: Pian di Mugnone, Florence (Italy).  
[JS] Pyrgus malvoides race? alpestris Verity, 1940. Farfalle diurne Italia 1: 42.  
    Replacement name, nom. nov. for Hesperia malvae alpina Tutt, 1906 nec Erschoff, 1874.  
Notes  
Bibliography  
Elwes H. J. & Edwards J. 1897.
VI. A revision of the oriental Hesperiidae.
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 14(4): 101-324, pl. 18-27. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia malvoides.		  
       
Oberthür C. 1910.
Notes pour servir à établir la faune française et algérienne des Lépidoptères - Rhopalocera (suite) [Hesperiidae].
Études de lépidoptérologie comparée 4: 352-417, 666-667, pl. 37, 54-57. (url)
New taxon: Syrichthus malvae fritillans.		  
       
Tutt J. W. 1905-1906.
A natural history of the British Lepidoptera, a text-book for students and collectors. Vol. VIII. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Berlin: Friedländer & Sohn (Ed.). pp. i-iii, 1-479, pl. 1-15. (url)
New taxa: Hesperia malvae australis, H. malvae pyrenaica, H. malvae andalusica, H. malvae alpina.		  
       
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 malvoides tutti.		  
   
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 malvoides modestior.		  
       
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 malvoides alpestris.		  
Reference publications  
Jong R. de -. 1987.
Superspecies Pyrgus malvae (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in the East Mediterranean, with notes on phylogenetic and biological relationships.
Zoologische Mededelingen 61(34): 483-500, pl. (url)		  
       

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