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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
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Spialia (Platygnathia) doris (Walker, 1870)
 
 
Synonyms
[ORIG] Nisoniades doris Walker, 1870. Entomologist 5(76): 56-57.  
    TL: Tajora (Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, Djibouti).
[JS] Pyrgus evanidus var. adenensis Butler, 1884. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1884: 493.  
    TL: Aden (Yemen).  
[JS] Hesperia amenophis Reverdin 1914. Bull. Soc. Lépid. Genève 3: 55, pl. 3, fig. 5-11.  
    TL: Heliopolis (Egypt).  
[JS] Spialia doris ssp. daphne Evans, 1949. Cat. Hesp. Eur. Asia Austr.: 177.  
    TL: Ziz Valley (High Atlas, Morocco).  
Notes  
(1) List of the taxa not found in the Western Palearctic: Spialia doris evanidus Butler, 1880.  
Bibliography  
Butler A. G. 1884.
On a Collection of Lepidoptera made by Major J. W. Yerbury at or near Aden.
Proceedings of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1884: 478-503, pl. 46. (url)
New taxon: Pyrgus evanidus adenensis.		  
       
Evans W. H. 1949.
A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London: British Museum (Ed.). pp. i-xix, 1-502, pl. 1-53. (url)
New taxon: Spialia doris daphne.		  
       
Reverdin J. L. 1914.
Notes sur les genre Carcharodus, Hesperia et Thanaos.
Bulletin de la Société Lépidoptérologique de Genève 3: 38-77. (url not available)
New taxon: Spialia doris amenophis.		  
       
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: Nisoniades doris.		  
       

Archives of Western Palearctic Lepidoptera 2025
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