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A dynamic checklist of the Western Palearctic butterflies hyperlinked to the original descriptions
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(Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)

  

Michel Taymans

Sylvain Cuvelier


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Subgenus Platygnathia Picard, [1948]
 
 
Synonyms
[ORIG] Platygnathia Picard, [1948]. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 52(8): 132.  
    TS: Hesperia phlomidis Herrich-Schäffer, [1845] by original designation.  
Notes  
(1) List of the species found in the Western Palearctic: Spialia (Platygnathia) phlomidis (Herrich-Schäffer, [1845]) ; Spialia (Platygnathia) doris (Walker, 1870).  
(2) List of the species not found in the Western Palearctic: Spialia (Platygnathia) geron (Watson, 1893) ; Spialia (Platygnathia) diomus (Hopffer, 1855).  
Bibliography  
Picard J. 1947 [1948].
Notes sur les Hesperiidae Pyrginae des régions paléarctiques. Tribus des Erynnidi, Carcharodidi et Pyrgidi.
Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 52(8): 129-134. (url)
New taxon: Platygnathia.		  
       
Reference publications
Jong R. de -. 1974.
Systematics and evolution of the Palaearctic Spialia species (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae).
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 117(6) : 225-271, fig. 1-37. (url)		  
   
Jong R. de -. 1978.
Monograph of the genus Spialia Swinhoe (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae).
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 121(3) : 23-146, pl. 1-7. (url)		  
       

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