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Proteides Hübner, [1819]

Proteides Hübner, [1819]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (7): 105, TS: Papilio mercurius Fabricius
Dicranaspis Mabille, 1878; Petites Nouvelles Ent. 2: 24, TS: Papilio idas Cramer

= ; [NL4A, 39]

Dicranaspes Scudder, 1882; Nomencl. zool. 1, Suppl. List: 107 (unjust. emendation)
Dicranaspes ; Kirby, 1880, (missp.)
Proteide ; Ronna, 1923, (missp.)
Proteides ; Godman & Salvin, [1893], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 301
Proteides (Eudamini) ; [NL4A, 39]

Proteides maysi (Lucas, 1857)

Cuba. See [About maps] Eudamus maysi Lucas, 1857; , TL: Cuba
Goniloba egeus Herrich-Schäffer, 1862; , TL: Cuba

= ; [NL4A, #472]

egens ; Weidemeyer, 1864, (missp.)
maisi ; Gundlach, 1881, (missp.)
maysii ; Plötz, 1882, (missp.)
Proteides maysii ; [BOW: pl. 85, f. 34]
Proteides maysi ; [NL4A, #472]

Larva on (oviposit) Andira inermis, (reared on) Lonchocarpus dominguensis Fernández, 2004, J. Lep. Soc. 58 (1): 49

Proteides mercurius (Fabricius, 1787)

Arizona - SA. See [About maps] Mercurial Skipper
Papilio mercurius Fabricius, 1787; Mantissa Insectorum 2: 86, TL: French Guiana
Proteides mercurius mercurius, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Proteides mercurius mercurius, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Proteides mercurius, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Proteides mercurius mercurius, Butterflies of Southeastern Arizon [Bruce Walsh]
Proteides mercurius ; [NACL, #3868]; [BOW: pl. 85, f. 35]; [NL4A, #473]; [Opler]

Larva on Cassia [NAB]

P. m. mercurius

French Guiana, Surinam Papilio idas Cramer, [1779]; Uitl. Kapellen 3 (22): 118, pl. 260, f. A, B (preocc. Papilio idas Linnaeus, 1761), TL: Surinam

= ; [NL4A, #473a]

Proteides idas ; Godman & Salvin, [1893], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 301, 3: pl. 77, f. 5; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 734; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52 : 57
mercurius ; Kendall & Freeman, 1963, (missp.)
Proteides mercurius mercurius ; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 158; [NL4A, #473a]

P. m. sanantonio (Lucas, 1857)

Cuba mercurius sanantonio (Lucas, 1857) (Eudamus); , TL: Cuba
san-antonio ; Lucas, 1857, (missp.)
san antonio ; Herrich-Schäffer, 1865, (missp.)
sanantonia ; Plötz, 1882, (missp.)
mercurius sanantonio ; [NACL, #3868a]
Proteides mercurius sanantonio ; [NL4A, #473f]

P. m. angasi Godman & Salvin, 1884

Dominica mercurius angasi Godman & Salvin, 1884; , TL: Dominica
Proteides mercurius angasi ; [NL4A, #473b]

P. m. pedro (Dewitz, 1877)

Puerto Rico mercurius pedro (Dewitz, 1877) (Goniloba); , TL: Puerto Rico
Eudamus gundlachii Plötz, 1881; , TL: Puerto Rico

= ; [NL4A, #473e]

gundlachi ; Mabille, 1903, (missp.)
Proteides mercurius pedro ; [NL4A, #473e]

P. m. jamaicensis Skinner, 1920

Jamaica mercurius jamaicensis Skinner, 1920; , TL: Jamaica
Proteides mercurius jamaicensis ; [NL4A, #473d]

P. m. sanchesi Bell & Comstock, 1948

Haiti mercurius sanchesi Bell & Comstock, 1948; , TL: Haiti
Proteides mercurius sanchesi ; [NL4A, #473g]

P. m. vincenti Bell & Comstock, 1948

St. Vincent mercurius vincenti Bell & Comstock, 1948; , TL: St. Vincent
Proteides mercurius vincenti ; [NL4A, #473h]

P. m. grenadensis Enrico & Pinchon, 1969

Grenada mercurius grenadensis Enrico & Pinchon, 1969; , TL: Grenada
Proteides mercurius grenadensis ; [NL4A, #473c]

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References:

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BAMONA]

Paul Opler, Harry Pavulaan, Ray Stanford, Michael Pogue; Butterflies and Moths of North America; Mountain Prairie Information Node

[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

[Bruce Walsh]

Bruce Walsh; e-mail: Bruce Walsh; The Moths of Southeastern Arizona; Butterflies of Southeastern Arizona

[HBN]

Francis Hemming, 1937; HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2

[ILMB]

Interactive Listing of Mexican Butterflies

[JLS]

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

[NAB]

Pyle, R. M.; National Audubon Society: Field Guide to North American Butterflies; 1981; ISBN 0-394-51914-0

[NACL]

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico

[NL4A]

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

[Opler]

Opler & Warren, 2003 (April); Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.

Some related literature:

Brown & Mielke, 1967

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

Cramer, [1779]

Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) Uitl. Kapellen 3 (17-21): 1-104, pl. 193-252 (1779), (22): 105-128, pl. 253-264 ([1780]), (23-24): 129-176, pl. 265-288 (1780)

Dyar, 1903

A List of North American Lepidoptera and Key to the Literature of this Order of Insects Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52 : 1-723

Fernández, 2004

New range extensions, larval hostplant records and natural history observations of Cuban butterflies J. Lep. Soc. 58 (1): 48-50

Godman & Salvin, [1893]; Godman & Salvin, [1901]

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

Hübner, [1819]

Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, 1816-[1826] Verz. bek. Schmett. (1): [1-3], 4-16 (1816), (2): 17-32 (1819), (3): 33-48 (1819), (4): 49-64 (1819), (5): 65-80 (1819), (6): 81-96 (1819), (7): 97-112 (1819), (8): 113-128 (1819), (9): 129-144 (1819), (10): 145-160 (1819), (11): 161-176 (1819), (12): 177-192 (1820), (13): 193-208 (1820), (14): 209-224 (1821), (15): 225-240 (1821), (16): 241-256 (1821), (17): 257-272 (1823), (18): 273-288 (1823), (19): 289-304 (1823), (20): 305-320 (1825), (21): 321-336 (1825), (22): 337-352 (1825), (23-27): 353-431 ([1825])

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