A dynamic checklist of the Western Palearctic butterflies hyperlinked to the original descriptions
at species, genus and family level
(Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)
List of the species found in the Western Palearctic: Pyrgus serratulae (Rambur, [1839]) ; Pyrgus carlinae (Rambur, [1839]) ; Pyrgus cirsii (Rambur, [1839]) ; Pyrgus cinarae (Rambur, [1839]) ; Pyrgus onopordi (Rambur, [1839]) ; Pyrgus armoricanus (Oberthür, 1910) ; Pyrgus numida (Oberthür, 1910) ; Pyrgus bellieri (Oberthür, 1910) ; Pyrgus alveus (Hübner, [1803]) ; Pyrgus warrenensis (Verity, 1928).
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List of the species not found in the Western Palearctic: Pyrgus centralasiae Renner, 1991 ; Pyrgus bolkariensis De Prins & Poorten, 1995 ; Pyrgus jupei (Alberti, 1967) ;Pyrgus aladaghensis De Prins & Poorten, 1995.
Bibliography
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Notes on nine genera of Holarctic Rhopalocera. Stylops 3(6): 143-144. (url)
Warren B. C. S. 1926.
Monograph of the Tribe Hesperiidi (european species) with revised classification of the subfamily Hesperiinae (palearctic species) based on the genital armature of the males. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1926(1): 1-170, fig. (url)
New taxon: Hesperia (Hemiteleomorpha).
Reference publications
Hernández-Roldán J. L., Munguira M. L., Wagner W. & Vila R. 2012.
Comparative analysis and taxonomic use of the morphology of immature stages and natural history traits in European species of Pyrgus Hübner (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Pyrginae). Zootaxa 3470(1): 1-71, fig. (doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3470.1.1)
Jong R. de -. 1987.
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)
Pitteloud C., Arrigo N., Suchan T., Mastretta-Yanes A., Vila R., Dinca V., Hernández-Roldán J., Brockmann E., Chittaro Y., Kleckova I., Fumagalli L., Buerki S., Pellissier L. & Alvarez N. 2017.
Climatic niche evolution is faster in sympatricthan allopatric lineages of the butterfly genus Pyrgus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284(1852): 1-10, fig. (doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0208)
Renner F. 1991.
Neue Untersuchungsergebnisse aus der Pyrgus alveus Hübner Gruppe in der Palaearktis unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Süddeutschland (Lepidoptera: Hesperidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 28: 1-157, fig. (url)
Warren B. C. S. 1926.
Monograph of the Tribe Hesperiidi (european species) with revised classification of the subfamily Hesperiinae (palearctic species) based on the genital armature of the males. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1926(1): 1-170, fig. (url)
Zhang J., Cong Q., Shen J. & Grishin N. V. 2022.
Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0921: 1-135, fig. (url)
Archives of Western Palearctic Lepidoptera 2025 Editors-in-Chief: Michel Taymans & Sylvain Cuvelier This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) ISSN 3041-6531
