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Anthoptus Bell, 1942

Anthoptus Bell, 1942; Amer. Mus. Novit. 1205: 7, TS: Hesperia epictetus
Anthroptus ; Hayward, 1973, (missp.)
Amthoptus ; Okano, 1982, (missp.)
Anthopus ; Salazar, 1995, (missp.)
Anthoptus (Hesperiinae) ; [NL4A, 62]

Anthoptus epictetus (Fabricius, 1793)

Mexico - Brazil. See [About maps] Hesperia epictetus Fabricius, 1793; Ent. Syst. 3 (1): 330, TL: "Indiis"
Cobalus nigritulus Mabille, 1883; C. R. Seances Soc. ent. Belg. 27: lxii [62], TL: Panama,Brazil

= ?Anthoptus insignis (Plötz, 1882); Steinhauser, 1991, Bull. Allyn Mus. 132: 22
= ; [NL4A, #1349]

Anthoptus epictetus, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Anthoptus epictetus, Butterflies of America [BOA]
epictatus ; Kirby, 1902, (missp.)
epictelus ; Raguso & Llorente, 1991, (missp.)
epictotus ; Moreno et al., 1998, (missp.)
Padraona epictetus ; Watson, 1893, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 (1) : 102; Godman & Salvin, [1900], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 572, 3: pl. 101, f. 44-46
Anthoptus epictetus ; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 164; [BOW: pl. 80, f. 25]; Steinhauser, 1991, Bull. Allyn Mus. 132: 22, 78 (m.gen), 100 (f.gen); [NL4A, #1349]

Anthoptus inculta (Dyar, 1918)

Mexico. See [About maps] Padraona inculta Dyar, 1918; Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 54 (2239) : 340, TL: Mexico
Anthoptus inculta ; [NL4A, #1350]

Anthoptus insignis (Plötz, 1882)

Mexico, Venezuela. See [About maps] Hesperia insignis Plötz, 1882; Stettin ent. Ztg 43 (7-9): 316, TL: Venezuela
Anthoptus insignis, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Anthoptus insignis, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Nastra insignis ; Evans, 1955, Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 4: 127; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 165
Anthoptus insignis ; Steinhauser, 1991, Bull. Allyn Mus. 132: 22, f. 79 (m.gen), 101 (f.gen); [NL4A, #1351]

Anthoptus macalpinei Freeman, 1969

Mexico. See [About maps] Anthoptus macalpinei Freeman, 1969; J. Lep. Soc. 23 (Suppl. 2): 27, pl. 9, f. 1-2, pl. 10, f. 1, TL: Fortin de las Flores, Veracruz, Mexico
Anthoptus macalpinei ; [NL4A, #1352]

Freeman, 1969 say this belongs to "calcarea complex" (Anthoptus calcarea, Anthoptus maracanae, Anthoptus visendus), two of which are now in Molo. Should the two remaining species of the group be there also?

24.12.2011 (5)

References:

[About maps]

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[BCA]

electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA

[BOA]

Interactive Listing of American Butterflies; Listado Interactivo de la Mariposas Americanas; Butterflies of America

[BOW]

Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[ILMB]

Interactive Listing of Mexican Butterflies

[JLS]

Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society; the original J. Lep. Soc. articles

[NL4A]

Gerardo Lamas, 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea

Some related literature:

Bell, 1942

New genera and new species of Neotropical Hesperiidae Amer. Mus. Novit. 1205: 1-9

Brown & Mielke, 1967

Lepidoptera of the Central Brazil Plateau. I. Preliminary list of Rhopalocera (continued) J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 145-168

Dyar, 1918

Descriptions of new Lepidoptera from Mexico Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 54 (2239) : 335-372

Evans, 1955

A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidae, indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. Part IV. Hesperiinae and Megathyminae Cat. amer. Hesp. Brit. Mus. 4: 499pp, pls. 54-88

Freeman, 1969

Records, new species, and new genus of Hesperiidae from Mexico J. Lep. Soc. 23 (Suppl. 2): 62pp

Godman & Salvin, [1900]

Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. (1887-1901) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 1-782, 3: pl. 1-112

Mabille, 1883

Description d'hespériens C. R. Seances Soc. ent. Belg. 27: li-lxxxvii [?lxxviii] (51-87[?78])

Plötz, 1882

Die Hesperiinen -- Gattung Hesperia Aut. und ihre Arten. (1) & (2) Stettin ent. Ztg 43 (7-9): 314-344, (10-12): 436-456

Steinhauser, 1991

Taxonomic notes and descriptions of new taxa in the neotropical Hesperiidae (2) Bull. Allyn Mus. 132: 1-79

Watson, 1893

A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 (1) : 3-133, pl. 1-3

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