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Mestra Hübner, [1825]

Mestra Hübner, [1825]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pl. [45], TS: Mestra hypermnestra Hübner
Cystineura Boisduval, [1836]; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 1 : pl. 9 [= pl. 5B], f. 1, TS: Papilio hersilia Fabricius

= ; [NL4A, 235]

Mestra, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Mnestra ; Kirby, 1871, Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 217 (missp.)
Cystineura ; Godman & Salvin, [1883], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 277
Mestra (Biblidini) ; [Wahlberg]
Mestra (Eurytelina) ; [EcuL]; [NL4A, 235]

Mestra dorcas (Fabricius, 1775)

Jamaica, Colombia, Venezuela. See [About maps] Papilio dorcas Fabricius, 1775; Syst. Ent.: 508, TL: "Carolina" [error, = Jamaica]
Mestra bogotana C. & R. Felder, 1867; , TL: Nova Granada, Bototá
Mestra dorcas ; [NL4A, #1737]

M. d. dorcas

Jamaica Papilio mardania Cramer, 1779; , TL: Jamaica

= ; [NL4A, #1737a]

Mestra dorcas dorcas ; [NL4A, #1737a]

M. d. hersilia (Fabricius, 1777)

Guyana, Colombia, St. Lucia, Trinidad Papilio hersilia Fabricius, 1777; Genera Insectorum : 265, TL: "India"
Cystineura cana Erichson, [1849]; , TL: Guyana

= ; [NL4A, #1737d]

Cystineura bogotana C. & R. Felder, 1867; , TL: Colombia

= ; [NL4A, #1737d]

Cystineura floridana Strecker, 1900; Lep. Rhopal. Het., Suppl. 3 : 24, TL: "Florida" [mislabelled]

= ; [NL4A, #1737d]

Cystineura cowiana Butler, 1902; , TL: St. Lucia,Trinidad

= ; [NL4A, #1737d]

Mestra dorcas hersilia ; [NL4A, #1737d]

Misidentified/misapplied:

Mestra floridana; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52 : 22
Mestra cana; [NACL, #4538]
Mestra cana floridana; [NACL, #4538a]

M. d. hypermestra Hübner, [1825]

Brazil(Pará), Paraguaey Mestra hypermestra Hübner, [1825]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pl. [45]
Cystineura tocantina Bates, 1865; , TL: Brazil, Pará

= ; [NL4A, #1737e]

Mestra hypermestra, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Mestra hypermnestra[sic] ; Hemming, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.), Suppl.: 288 (missp.); [BOW: pl. 39, f. 11]
Mestra dorcas hypermestra ; [NL4A, #1737e]

M. d. amymone (Ménétriés, 1857)

Lousiana, S.Texas - Nicaragua, Costa Rica Amymone
Cystineura amymone Ménétriés, 1857; Cat. lep. Petersb. 2: 123, pl. 9, f. 6, TL: Nicaragua
Mestra amymone, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Mestra amymone, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Mestra amymone, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Mestra amymone, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Mestra amymone, Butterflies of Southeastern Arizon [Bruce Walsh]
Cystineura amymone ; Godman & Salvin, [1883], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 278; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 690
Mestra amymone ; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52 : 22; [NACL, #4537]; [BCR: 137, pl. 22]; [BOW: pl. 14, f. 7]; [Opler]
Mestra dorcas amymone ; [NL4A, #1737b]

Larva on Tragia volubilis [BCR]

M. d. apicalis (Staudinger, 1886)

Brazil(São Paulo, Goiás, Pará), Bolivia, Argentina dorcas apicalis (Staudinger, 1886) (Cystineura); , TL: Brazil, São Paulo
Cystineura aurantia Weeks, 1902; Proc. New England Zool. Club 3 : 5, TL: Bolivia, near Coroice

= ; [NL4A, #1737c]

Cystineura apicalis burchelli Moulton, 1908; , TL: Brazil, Goiás; Pará

= ; [NL4A, #1737c]

Cysteneura[sic] hypermnestra[sic] sordida Hayward, 1931; , TL: Argentina

= ; [NL4A, #1737c]

?Mestra hypermestra apicalis ; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2): 102
Mestra aurantia ; [BOW: pl. 39, f. 11 (text only)]
Mestra dorcas apicalis ; [NL4A, #1737c]

M. d. latimargo (Hall, 1929)

Ecuador Cystineura latimargo Hall, 1929; , TL: Ecuador, Arenillas
Mestra dorcas latimargo ; [EcuL]; [NL4A, #1737f]

M. d. semifulva (C. & R. Felder, 1867)

Colombia dorcas semifulva (C. & R. Felder, 1867) (Cystineura); , TL: Colombia
Mestra dorcas semifulva ; [NL4A, #1737g]

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References:

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[BAMONA]

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

[BCA]

electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA

[BCR]

DeVries, Philip J.; The Butterflies of Costa Rica; Vol. I: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae

[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

[EcuL]

Tommaso & Luigi Racheli, 2001; An annotated list of Ecuadorian Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae); Fragmenta entomologica 33 (2): 213-380

[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

[LAMAS-NEO]

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

[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.

[Wahlberg]

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

Some related literature:

Boisduval, [1836]

Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. Tome Premier Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 1 : 1-690, pl. 1-24

Brown & Mielke, 1967

Lepidoptera of the Central Brazil Plateau. I. Preliminary list of Rhopalocera J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2): 77-106

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

Fabricius, 1775

Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Syst. Ent.: 832pp

Fabricius, 1777

Genera Insectorum eorumque characters naturales secundum numerum, figuram, situm et proportionem ... Genera Insectorum : 1-310

Godman & Salvin, [1883]

Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. Vol. 1. (1879-1886) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 1-487, 3: pl. 1-24,24a,25-112

Godman & Salvin, [1901]

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

Hemming, 1967

Generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.), Suppl.: -

Hübner, [1825]

Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge, Vol. 2 ([1819] - [1827]) Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pl. [90], [180], [223] (1819), : pl. [2], [12], [16], [78], [141], [182] (1820), : pl. [11], [13], [24], [77], [83], [97], [102-103], [108-109], [116-117], [122], [147], [150], [164], [183], [195], [197], [212-214] (1821), : pl. [14], [18-19], [26], [38-39], [43], [68], [70-71], [74], [84], [86], [92], [94-95], [106], [114], [121], [161], [169], [174], [177-178], [184], [194], [200], [204-205], [207-208], [210] (1821), : pl. [33], [72], [76], [115], [131], [138-139], [153], [198], [211], [218], [220] (1822), : pl. [32], [75], [81], [93], [105], [129] (1822), : pl. [1], [6], [22-23], [25], [27], [29-31], [34-37], [40-42], [48], [50-53], [56], [58-59], [64-66], [69], [73], [87], [89], [91], [96], [98-101], [110], [124], [128], [130], [132-137], [142], [155-158], [160], [162-163], [165-167], [170-173], [175-176], [187-188], [196], [199], [201-202], [206], [215-216], [219], [222], [224] (1823), : pl. [54], [118], [143], [149], [159] [179], [181], [185], [203], [217] (1824), : pl. [3-5], [8-10], [15], [20], [45], [49], [55], [60], [62-63], [67], [79-80], [88], [104], [111-113], [120], [125], [127], [140], [144-146], [148], [151-152], [154], [168], [189-193], [221], [225] (1825), : pl. [7], [17], [21], [28], [44], [46-47], [57], [61], [82], [123], [126] (1826), : pl. [85], [119], [186], [209] (1827), : (Index Systematicus) [1-4] (1827-1832)

Kirby, 1871

A synonymic catalogue of the diurnal Lepidoptera Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep.: vii + 690pp : 1-690

Ménétriés, 1857

Enumeratio corporum animalium Musei Imperialis Academiae Scientiarum Petropilitanae. Classis Insectorum, Ordo Lepidopterorum Cat. lep. Petersb. 1: 1-66, pl. 1-6, (supplement) 67-112 (1855), 2: 67-97,99-144, pl. 7-14 (1857), 3: 145-161, pl. 15-18 (1863)

Strecker, 1900

Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic Lep. Rhopal. Het., Suppl. 3 : 13-37,38

Weeks, 1902

Descriptions of six new butterflies from Bolivia Proc. New England Zool. Club 3 : 1-7

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