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Thecla Fabricius, 1807

Thecla Fabricius, 1807; Magazin f. Insektenk. (Illiger) 6: 286, TS: Papilio betulae Linnaeus
Zephyrus Dalman, 1816; K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 37 : 62, 63, TS: Papilio betulae Linnaeus
Aurotis Dalman, 1816; K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 37 : 63, 90, TS: Papilio betulae Linnaeus
Ruralis Tutt, 1906; Ent. Rec. J. Var. 18 (5) : 130, TS: Papilio betulae Linnaeus
Thecla, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Zephyrius ; Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb.: 80 (missp.)
Thecla ; Godman & Salvin, [1887], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 8
Thecla (Theclini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 430
Thecla (Lycaenidae) ; [BRU2, 86]

Thecla betulae (Linnaeus, 1758)

China. See [About maps] Ruostenopsasiipi Brown Hairstreak Björksnabbvinge Rostsnabbvinge Nierenfleck Topacio Pazik brzozowiec
Papilio betulae Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 482, TL: Sweden
?apelles (Villers, 1789)
spinosae Gerhard, [1850]
aquilonia Wheeler, 1903
?lata (Tutt, 1907)
?unicolor (Tutt, 1907)
?subunicolor (Tutt, 1907)
?uncilinea (Tutt, 1907)
?grisea (Tutt, 1907)
?lineata (Tutt, 1907)
?cuenata (Tutt, 1907)
?minor (Tutt, 1907)
?virgata (Tutt, 1907)
?latalineata (Tutt, 1907)
?major (Tutt, 1907)
?restricta (Tutt, 1907)
?restrictalineata (Tutt, 1907)
?albofasciata Spuler, 1907
?pallida (Tutt, 1907)
?lutea (Tutt, 1908)
?steinbuehleri (Hoffmann, 1914)
?melanthea (Cabeau, 1922)
?spinosoida (Seok, 1934)
Thecla betulae daurica Dubatolov, 1999; , TL: Mongolia
Thecla betulae daurica, Lepidoptera collection [SZMN]
Thecla betulae, Larvae of North-European Lepidoptera [Kimmo Silvonen]
Thecla betulae, Svenska fjärilar [SVF]
Thecla betulae, Norges Sommerfugler [NORLEP]
Thecla betulae, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]
Thecla betulae, Europaische Schmetterlinge [Mario Maier]
Thecla betulae, Captain's European Butterfly Guide [Simon Coombes]
Thecla betulae ; [BARU, #303]; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 11, f. 1-2]; [MRS, 629]; [BRU2: 86, pl. 50, f. 1-6]; [Otakar Kudrna]

400x499 (~30Kb) Finland, Luopioinen, Rautajärvi 681:37, 31.8.1996, Photo © Tero Piirainen	550x534 (~29Kb) underside Finland, Luopioinen 681:37, 31.8.1996, Photo © Tero Piirainen	400x597 (~36Kb) larva Central Europe 1990-2000, Photo © Michael Borsch
550x371 (~52Kb) pupa Central Europe 1990-2000, Photo © Michael Borsch	400x597 (~34Kb) underside Central Europe 1990-2000, Photo © Michael Borsch	600x800 (~85Kb) Sweden, Ekebo, Julita, 28.8.2003, Photo © Leif Wahlberg
600x450 (~59Kb) upperside Sweden, Ekebo, Julita, 28.8.2003, Photo © Leif Wahlberg	347x491 (~49Kb) underside Sweden, Ekebo, Julita, 28.8.2003, Photo © Leif Wahlberg	741x556 (~73Kb) upperside Sweden, Ekebo, Julita, 6.9.2003, Photo © Leif Wahlberg
677x902 (~91Kb) upperside Sweden, Ekebo, Julita, 5.8.2004, Photo © Leif Wahlberg	807x805 (~93Kb) larva Russia, Moscow area, 17.6.2010 (36°25'E, 56°00'N), Photo © D. Smirnov	761x619 (~81Kb) pupa Russia, Moscow area, 21.6.2010 (36°25'E, 56°00'N), Photo © D. Smirnov

Larva on Prunus padus, P. domestica [SPRK], Corylus, Ribes, Viburnum, Sorbus, Prunus, Padus avium, Crataegus, (and other fruticose and arboreal Rosaceae) [BARU] (not Betula!) [BRU2, 86] Amygdalys spp. [MRS]

T. b. betulae

EU, N.Caucasus, Saur, Tarbagatai, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Siberia, Amur, Ussuri Thecla betulae betulae ; [BRU2, 86]

Larva on Prunus spinosa, (Caucasus) Crataegus sanguinea, (S.Altai,Saur) [BRU2, 86]

T. b. crassa Leech, 1894

S.Ussuri Thecla betulae crassa ; [BARU, (note)]; [BRU2, 86]

Larva on Padus asiatica, Amerniaca mandschurica [BRU2, 86]

T. b. ongodai Tutt, 1908

Thecla betulae ongodai Tutt, 1908; , TL: Altai
Thecla betulae ongodai, Lepidoptera collection [SZMN]
Thecla betulae ongodai ; [BARU, (note)]

T. b. coreana (Nire, 1919)

Korea Zephyrus coreana Nire, 1919; Dobuts. Zasahi, Tokyo 31: 369
Thecla betulae coreana ; [MRS, 629]; [BRU2, 86 (note)]

Larva on Fabaceae [MRS]

T. b. elwesi Leech, 1890

W.China, C.China Thecla elwesi Leech, 1890; Entomologist 23 : 39, TL: Chang Yang; Ichang
Thecla elvesi[sic?] ; [BOW: pl. 11, f. 2 (text only)]
Thecla betulae elwesi ; [MRS, 629]

T. b. yiliguozigounae Huang & Murayama, 1992

Thecla betulina Staudinger, 1887

Ussuri, Amur, NE.China, Korea. See [About maps] Thecla betulina Staudinger, 1887; in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 3 : 127, pl. 16, f. 6, TL: S. Primorye, Razdolnaya river
Zephyrus betulae gaimana Doi & Chow, 1931
Thecla betulina shibasakii Morita, 2003
Thecla betulina minekoae Morita, 2003
Thecla betulina ; [BARU, #304]; [MRS, 630]; [BRU2: 86, pl. 50, f. 7-9]

Larva on Malus [BARU], Malus mandschurica [BRU2, 87]

Taxa from [BOW], which probably are misspellings, which I cannot figure out. -- msa

?Thecla tarama Hewitson

Brazil. See [About maps] ?Thecla tarama[sic] ; [BOW: pl. 69, f. 21 (missp.?)]

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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.

[BARU]

Korshunov, Y. P., Gorbunov, P. Y.; Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia; English translation by Oleg Kosterin; [Dnevnye babochki aziatskoi chasti Rossii. Spravochnik]

[BCA]

electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA

[BOW]

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

[BRU2]

Tuzov (ed.), Bogdanov, Churkin, Devyatkin, Dantchenko, Murzin, Samodurov, Zhdanko, 2000; Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae; Volume 2

[D. Smirnov]

Russia, Moscow; e-mail: D. Smirnov

[EBW]

Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6

[Kimmo Silvonen]

Espoo, Finland; Kimmo's Lep Site

[LAMAS-NEO]

Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)

[Leif Wahlberg]

Julita, Sweden; e-mail: Leif Wahlberg

[MBE]

Moths and Butteflies of Europe; Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[Mario Maier]

Europäische Schmetterlinge; e-mail: Mario Maier

[Michael Borsch]

Geesthacht, Germany; contact through; e-mail: Francisco Welter-Schultes

[NORLEP]

Norges Sommerfugler

[SPRK]

Seppänen, E. J, 1970; Suomen suurperhostoukkien ravintokasvit, Animalia Fennica 14

[SVF]

Svenska fjärilar; Naturhistoriska riksmuseet; (Sweden)

[SZMN]

Lepidoptera; Siberian Zoological Museum

[Simon Coombes]

1 Park Street, Plymouth, PL3 4BL, UK; 01752 607854; e-mail: Simon Coombes; http://www.butterfly-guide.co.uk

[Tero Piirainen]

Tampere, Finland; e-mail: Tero Piirainen

[Wahlberg]

Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group

Some related literature:

Dalman, 1816

Försök till systematiks Uppställing af Sveriges Fjärilar K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 37 : 48-101, (2): 119-225

Dyar, 1913

Results of the Yale Peruvian expedition of 1911. Lepidoptera Proc. U.S. natn. Mus. 45 (2006) : 627-649

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

Fabricius, 1807

Systema Glossatorum. Die neueste Gattungs-Eintheilung der Schmetterlinge aus den Linnéischen Gattungen Papilio und Sphinx Magazin f. Insektenk. (Illiger) 6: 277-295

Godman & Salvin, [1887]

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

Hewitson, 1867

Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera. Lycaenidae Ill. diurn. Lep. Lycaenidae (1): 1-36,37*, pl. 1-16 (1863), (2): 37-76, pl. 17-30 (1865), (3): 77-114, pl. 31-46 (1867), (4): 115-136,14a-h, pl. 47-54,3a-c, (Suppl.) 1-16, pl. 1-5 (1869), (5): 137-150,151*, pl. 55-59, (Suppl.) pl. 6 (1873), (6): 151-184,185*, pl. 60-73 (1874), (7): 185-208,209*, pl. 74-83 (1877), (8): 209-228, pl. 84-85,88-92, (Suppl.) 17-47, pl. 1a-b,3a-b,4a,5a-b,7-8 (1878)

Leech, 1890

New species of Lepidoptera from China Entomologist 23 : 26-50, 81-83, : 109-114, : 187-192, pl. 1

Linnaeus, 1758

Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Clases, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Symonymis, Locis. Tomis I. 10th Edition Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 1-338, : 339-824

Staudinger, 1887

Neue Arten und Varietäten von Lepidopteren aus dem Amur-Gebiete in Romanoff, Mém. Lépid. 3 : 126-232, pl. 6-12, 16-17

Tutt, 1906

A Study of the generic Names of the British Lycaenides and their close Allies Ent. Rec. J. Var. 18 (5) : 129-132

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