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Philotes Scudder, 1876: Philotes Scudder, 1876; Bull. Buffalo Soc. nat. Sci. 3: 116, TS: Lycaena regia Boisduval
Philotes (Polyommatini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 449; [Opler]
Philotes (Polyommatinae) ; [NL4A, 139]

Philotes sonorensis (C. & R. Felder, [1865])

California, Colorado, N.Mexico. See [About maps] Sonoran Blue Stonecrop Blue
Lycaena sonorensis C. & R. Felder, [1865]; Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (2): 281, pl. 35, f. 3-4, TL: [California]
Lycaena regia Boisduval, 1869; Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 12 : 46, TL: California
ab. sonoralba Watson & Comstock, 1920; , TL: California

= ; [NL4A, #1089]

f. comstocki Gunder, 1925; , TL: California

= ; [NL4A, #1089]

Philotes sonorensis sonorensis, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Philotes sonorensis sonorensis, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Philotes sonorensis, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Lycaena sonorensis ; Godman & Salvin, [1887], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 103
Philotes sonorensis ; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52 : 43; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 20, f. 15]; [NACL, #4365]; [BNA: 400, pl. 35, f. 397]; [Opler]; [NL4A, #1089]

Larva on Dudleya cymosa, D. lanceolata, D. saxosa [BNA], Dudleya calcicola? Davenport, 1988, J. Lep. Soc. 42 (4): 291

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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
[BNA]: Scott, James A., 1986; The Butterflies of North America
[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
[EBW]: Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6
[ILMB]: Interactive Listing of Mexican Butterflies
[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:

Boisduval, 1869: Lépidoptères de la Californie Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 12 : 5-28,37-94
Davenport, 1988: New distribution records and a probable new larval host plant for Philotes sonorensis in Kern and Tulare Counties, California J. Lep. Soc. 42 (4): 291-292
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
Eliot, 1973: The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505, 162fgs, pl. 1-6
C. & R. Felder, [1865]: Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Behilfen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Band 2. Abtheilung 2. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (1): 1-136, pl. 1-21 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, [1865]), (2): 137-378, pl. 22-47 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, 1865), (3): 379-536, pl. 48-74 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, 1867), (4): 537-548, pl. 75-120, (Inhalts-Verz.) 1-9 (pl. 1-74), (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) , (5): pl. 121-140, (erklärung) 1-10 (pl. 75-107), (Inhalts-Vers.) 1-20 (pl. 108-140), (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Godman & Salvin, [1887]: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. (1887-1901) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 1-782, 3: pl. 1-112

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