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(Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)

 

Michel Taymans

Sylvain Cuvelier


30.xii.2025


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Thymelicus lineola (Ochsenheimer, 1808)

 
 
Synonyms
[ORIG] Papilio lineola Ochsenheimer, 1808. Schmett. Eur. 1(2): 230-231.  
    TL: Germany.
[JH] Papilio virgula Hübner, [1813]. Samml. eur. Schmett. 1: pl. 130, fig. 660-663, 1824: 5.  
    TL: Germany ; nec Retzius, 1783. Gen. Spec. Ins.: 31.  
[JS] Pamphila ludoviciae Mabille, 1883. Ann. Soc. entomol. Belg. 27(suppl.): lxviii-lxix.  
    TL: Murat (Auvergnes, France), Pyrénées (France).  
[JS] Thymelicus lineola var. semicolon Staudinger, 1892. Dt. Entomol. Z. Iris 5(2): 282.  
    TL: Lambèse (Algeria).  
[IFS] Adopaea [sic] lineola ab. clara Tutt, 1906. Nat. Hist. Brit. Lepid. 8: 96.  
    TL: Larche (SE France).  
[IFS] Adopaea [sic] lineola ab. major Tutt, 1906. Nat. Hist. Brit. Lepid. 8: 96.  
    TL: Wolfsberg (Austria).  
[IFS] Adopaea [sic] lineola ab. major-clara Tutt, 1906. Nat. Hist. Brit. Lepid. 8: 96.  
    TL: Tragacete (Spain).  
[IFS] Adopaea [sic] lineola ab. intermedia Tutt, 1906. Nat. Hist. Brit. Lepid. 8: 96.  
    TL: Macugnaga (N Italy).  
[SR] Thymelicus lineola ssp. major-clara Graves, 1925. Trans. entomol. Soc. Lond. 73(1/2): 42-43.  
    Stat. rev. for Adopaea lineola ab. major-clara Tutt, 1906.  
[JS] Thymelicus lineola f. diluta Graves, 1925. Trans. entomol. Soc. Lond. 73(1/2): 43.  
    TL: Shar Deresy (Lebanon).  
[JS] Adopaea [sic] lineola f.[var.] hemmingi Romei, 1927. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 39(9): 127.  
    TL: Sierra Nevada (S Spain).  
[JS] Adopaea [sic] lineola ssp. pseudothaumas Zerny, 1927. Eos 3(3): 342.  
    TL: Losilla (Teruel prov., Spain).  
[JS] Adopaea [sic] lineola ssp. melissus Zerny, 1932. Dt. Entomol. Z. Iris 46(4): 188.  
    TL: N Lebanon.  
[JS] Adopaea [sic] lineola f. fornax Hemming, 1934. Entomologist 67(859): 198.  
    TL: Palestine.  
[JS] Adopoea lineola race italamixta Verity, 1940. Farfalle diurne Italia 1: 96, pl. 3, fig. 96-104.  
    TL: Sesto Fiorentino (Toscana, Italy).  
[SR] Adopoea lineola race clara Verity, 1940. Farfalle diurne Italia 1: 96-97.  
    Stat. rev. for Adopoea lineola ab. clara Tutt, 1906.  
[SR] Adopoea lineola race intermedia Verity, 1940. Farfalle diurne Italia 1: 98, pl. 4, fig. 8-13.  
    Stat. nov. for Adopoea lineola ab. intermedia Tutt, 1906.  
[SR] Adopoea lineola race major Verity, 1940. Farfalle diurne Italia 1: 98, pl. 4, fig. 14-19.  
    Stat. nov. for Adopoea lineola ab. major Tutt, 1906.  
[JS] Thymelicus lineola race ifranensis Picard, 1948. Bull. Soc. Sci. nat. Maroc 28: 128-129.  
    TL: Ifrane (Maroc).  

Notes  
(1) List of the taxa not found in the Western Palearctic: Thymelicus lineola galinae Yakovlev & Doroshkin, 2012 ; Thymelicus lineola kushana Wyatt, 1961.  

Bibliography  
Graves P. P. 1925.
IV. The Rhopalocera and Grypocera of Palestilie and Transjordania.
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 73(1/2): 17-125, pl. 4-5. (doi)
New taxa: Thymelicus lineola major-clara, Thymelicus lineola diluta.
 
       
Hemming F. 1934.
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Entomologist 67(859): 198, fig. (url not available)
New taxon: Adopaea lineola fornax.
 
       
Hübner J. [1799-1826].
Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge. Lepidoptera I., Papiliones I. Augsburg: Jacob Hübner (Ed.). pp. 1-74, 1-8, pl. 1-181. (note on publication dates: Heppner, 1982 (url): [1799-1800]: pl. 1-88, fig. 1-446 ; [1800-1803]: pl. 89-96, fig. 447-490 ; [1803-1804]: pl. 97-114, fig. 491-588 ; [1805]: pl. 115-119, fig. 589-612 ; [1805-1806]: pl. 120-124, fig. 613-636 ; [1806]: p. 1-74 ; [1806-1808]: pl. 125-128, fig. 637-652 ; [1808-1813]: pl. 129-144, fig. 653-727 ; [1814-1816]: pl. 145-147, fig. 728-741 ; [1816-1817]: pl. 148-150, fig. 742-756 ; [1818-1819]: pl. 151, fig. 757-762 ; [1819-1822]: pl. 152-154, fig. 757-774 ; [1822-1823]: pl. 155, fig. 775-778 ; [1823]: pl. 156-161, fig. 779-806 ; [1823-1824]: pl. 162-175, fig. 807-868 ; [1824]: p. 1-8 [1824-1825]: pl. 176, fig. 869-874 ; [1825-1826]: pl. 177-181, fig. 875-895) (text: url ; plates: url)
New taxon: Papilio virgula.
 
       
Mabille P. 1883.
Description d’Hespéries.
Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique
27(Comptes-Rendus des Séances) : li-lxxviii. (url)
New taxon: Pamphila ludoviciae.
 
       
Ochsenheimer F. 1808.
Die Schmetterlinge von Europa. Erster Band, Zweyte Abtheilung. Leipzig: G. Fleischer dem Jüngern (Ed.). pp. i-xxx, 1-241. (url)
New taxon: Papilio lineola.
 
       
Picard J. 1948.
Études sur les Hesperiidae du Maroc.
Bulletin de la Société des sciences naturelles du Maroc
28: 110-135. (url)
New taxon: Thymelicus lineola ifranensis.
 
       
Retzius A. J. 1783.
Genera et species insectorum e generosissimi auctoris scriptis extraxit, digessit, latine quoad partem reddidit, et terminologiam insectorum Linneanam additit. Lipsiae: Apud Siegfried Lebrecht Crusium (Ed.). pp. 1-220. (url)
New taxon: Papilio virgula.
 
       
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: Adopaea lineola hemmingi.
 
       
Staudinger O. 1892.
Lepidopteren aus Tunis.
Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift
“Iris“ 5(2): 277-300. (url)
New taxon: Thymelicus lineola semicolon.
 
       
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 taxon: Adopaea lineola major-clara.
 
       
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 taxa: Adopoea lineola italamixta, Adopoea lineola iintermedia, Adopoea lineola major.
 
       
Zerny H. 1927.
Die Lepidopterenfauna von Albarracin in Aragonien.
Eos, revista española de entomología 3(3): 299-394, pl. 9-10. (url)
New taxon: Adopaea lineola pseudothaumas.
 
       
Zerny H. 1932.
Lepidopteren aus dem nördlichen Libanon.Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift “Iris“ 46(4): 157-191. (url not available)
New taxon: Adopaea lineola pseudothaumas.
 
       

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