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Pierella Herrich-Schäffer, 1865

Pierella Herrich-Schäffer, 1865; CorrespBl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg 19 (5): 65, TS: Papilio nereis Drury
Pieris Hübner, [1819]; (preocc. Schrank, 1801)

= ; [NL4A, 206]

Pierella Westwood, [1851]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): 365 (invalid)
Antirrhaea Westwood, 1851; (unavail.)

= ; [NL4A, 206]

Pierella, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Pierella ; Godman & Salvin, [1880], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 66
Pierella (Haeterini) ; [Wahlberg]; [NL4A, 206]

Pierella amalia Weymer, 1885

Peru. See [About maps] Pierella amalia Weymer, 1885; , TL: Peru, Pebas
Pierella lena ab. leucospila Staudinger, 1887; , TL: "Upper Amazon"

= ; [NL4A, #517]

Pierella amalia ; [EcuL, (note)]; [NL4A, #517]

Pierella astyoche (Erichson, [1849])

Guianas. See [About maps] Hetaera[sic] astyoche Erichson, [1849]; , TL: Guyana
Haetera astyoche var. ; Hewitson, 1860, Ill. exot. Butts [4] (Haetera): [40], pl. [21], f. 5
Pierella astyoche ; [BOW: pl. 63, f. 12]; [NL4A, #518]

P. a. astyoche

Guyana, Brazil(Pará) Haetera larymna Doubleday, [1849]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): pl. 62, TL: Brazil, Pará

= ; [NL4A, #518a]

Pierella astyoche astyoche ; [NL4A, #518a]

P. a. stollei Ribeiro, 1931

Brazil(Rondônia) astyoche stollei Ribeiro, 1931; , TL: Brazil, Rondônia
Pierella stollei ;
Pierella astyoche stollei ; [NL4A, #518c]

P. a. bernhardina Bryk, 1953

Brazil(Amazonas) astyoche bernhardina Bryk, 1953; , TL: Brazil, Amazonas
Pierella astyoche f. obscura Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948; (nom. nud.), TL: Brazil, Amazonas

= ; [NL4A, #518b]

Pierella astyoche bernhardina ; [NL4A, #518b]

Pierella helvina (Hewitson, 1860)

-. See [About maps] Haetera helvina Hewitson, 1860; Ill. exot. Butts [4] (Haetera): [40], pl. [21], f. 4, TL: Colombia
Pierella helvetia ; D'Abrera, 1988, (missp.)
Pierella helvina ; [BOW: pl. 63, f. 5]; [NL4A, #519]

P. h. helvina

Colombia Pierella helvina helvina ; [NL4A, #519a]

P. h. ocreata Godman & Salvin, 1868

Panama, Ecuador? Pierella ocreata Godman & Salvin, 1868; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 2 (8) : 143, TL: Panama, Calobre
Pierella ocreata Butler, 1868; (nom. nud.), TL: Panama

= ; [NL4A, #519d]

Pierella ocreata ; Godman & Salvin, [1880], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 68, 3: pl. 6, f. 7-9
Pierella helvina ocreata ; [EcuL]; [NL4A, #519d]

P. h. incanescens Godman & Salvin, 1877

Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama Pierella incanescens Godman & Salvin, 1877; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1877 (1) : 61, TL: Nicaragua,Costa Rica,Panama
Pierella incanescens costarica Niepelt, 1927; , TL: Costa Rica

= ; [NL4A, #519c]

Pierella incanescens ; Godman & Salvin, [1880], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 68, 3: pl. 6, f. 5-6; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 651
Pierella helvetia incanescens ; [BCR: 262, pl. 47]
Pierella helvina incanescens ; [NL4A, #519c]

Larva on Heliconia, Calathea [BCR]

P. h. hymettia Staudinger, [1886]

Colombia helvina hymettia Staudinger, [1886]; , TL: Rio San Juan, W.Colombia
Pierella incanescens werneri Hering & Hopp, 1925; , TL: [W. Colombia], Rio Micay

= Pierella helvina ocreata ; [EcuL]
= ; [NL4A, #519b]

Pierella helvina hymettia ; [NL4A, #519b]

P. h. pacifica Niepelt, 1924

Colombia helvina pacifica Niepelt, 1924; , TL: Colombia, "Pacifico, Süd Columbia"

= Pierella helvina ocreata ; [EcuL]

Pierello[sic] ocreata johnsoni Talbot, 1932; , TL: Colombia

= ; [NL4A, #519e]

Pierella pacifica ; [BOW: pl. 63, f. 5 (text only)]
Pierella helvina pacifica ; [NL4A, #519e]

Pierella hortona (Hewitson, 1854)

Ecuador, .... See [About maps] Haetera hortona Hewitson, 1854; , TL: Brazil, Ega
Pierella hortona, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Pierella hortona ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 63, f. 8]; [EcuL]; [NL4A, #520]

P. h. hortona

Brazil(Amazonas), Peru Haetera hortensia C. & R. Felder, 1862; Wien. ent. Monats. 6 (4): 124, TL: "Rio Negro" [= Peru, San Martin]

= ; [NL4A, #520a]

Pierella hortona f. albopunctata Brown, 1948; , TL: Peru

= ; [NL4A, #520a]

Pierella hortona f. ocellata Smart, 1975; , TL: Peru

= ; [NL4A, #520a]

Pierella hortona hortona ; [NL4A, #520a]

P. h. albofasciata Rosenberg & Talbot, 1914

Peru, Bolivia Pierella albofasciata Rosenberg & Talbot, 1914; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1913 (4) : 678, TL: Peru
Pierella albofaciata[sic] decepta Brown, 1948; , TL: Bolivia

= ; [NL4A, #520b]

Pierella hortona albofasciata ; [NL4A, #520b]

P. h. ssp.

Peru Pierella hortona ssp. ; Lamas, MS, [NL4A, #520c]

Pierella hyalinus (Gmelin, [1790])

Surinam, Trinidad, Amazon. See [About maps] Papilio hyalinus Gmelin, [1790]; , TL: Surinam
Pierella hyalina ; [EcuL, (note)]
Pierella hyalinus ; [NL4A, #521]

P. h. hyalinus

Surinam, Trinidad Pieris dracontis Hübner, [1819]; , TL: Surinam

= ; [NL4A, #521a]

Pierella hyalinus fusimaculata Brown, 1948; , TL: Trinidad

= ; [NL4A, #521a]

Pierella dracontis ; [EBW]
Pierella hyalinus hyalinus ; [NL4A, #521a]

P. h. extincta Weymer, 1910

Brazil(Amazonas) hyalinus extincta Weymer, 1910; , TL: Brazil, Amazonas
Pierella hyalinus extincta ; [NL4A, #521b]

P. h. schmidti Constantino, 1995

Colombia hyalinus schmidti Constantino, 1995; , TL: Colombia
Pierella hyalinus schmidti ; [NL4A, #521c]

P. h. velezi Constantino, 1995

Colombia hyalinus velezi Constantino, 1995; , TL: Colombia
Pierella hyalinus velezi ; [NL4A, #521d]

Pierella hyceta (Hewitson, 1860)

Amazon, Bolivia. See [About maps] Haetera hyceta Hewitson, 1860; Ill. exot. Butts [4] (Haetera): [39], pl. [21], f. 1, TL: [Peru] Nauta, Amazons
Pierella hyceta, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Pierella hyceta ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 63, f. 9]; [NL4A, #522]

P. h. hyceta

Peru Pierella hyceta hyceta ; [NL4A, #522a]

P. h. ceryce (Hewitson, 1874)

Bolivia Pierella ceryce Hewitson, 1874; , TL: Bolivia
Pierella cercye[sic] ; [BOW: pl. 63, f. 9 (text only)]
Pierella ceryce ; [EcuL, (note)]
Pierella hyceta ceryce ; [NL4A, #522b]

P. h. latona (C. & R. Felder, 1867)

Colombia, Bolivia? hyceta latona (C. & R. Felder, 1867) (Haetera); , TL: Colombia
Pierella latona ; [BOW: pl. 63, f. 9 (text only)]
Pierella hyceta latona ; [EcuL]; [NL4A, #522c]

P. h. ssp.

Peru Pierella hyceta ssp. ; Lamas, MS, [NL4A, #522d]

P. h. ssp.

Peru Pierella hyceta ssp. ; Lamas, MS, [NL4A, #522e]

Pierella lamia (Sulzer, 1776)

Surinam, Colombia, Cayenne, Amazon. See [About maps] Papilio lamia Sulzer, 1776; , TL: America
Pierella lamia, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Pierella lamia ; [NL4A, #523]

P. l. lamia

Surinam, French Guiana Papilio rhea Fabricius, 1775; (preocc. Papilio rhea Poda, 1761), TL: "Indiis et Caienne"

= ; [NL4A, #523a]

Papilio dyndimene Cramer, 1779; , TL: Surinam

= ; [NL4A, #523a]

Pierella luna ab. albina Oberthür, 1896; , TL: French Guiana

= ; [NL4A, #523a]

?Papilio fabricius Ebert, 1965; (unnec. repl. Papilio rhea Fabricius, 1775), TL: Cayenne
f. fabriciana Ebert, 1965; (repl. nema), TL: "Indiis"

= ; [NL4A, #523a]

Pierella rhea ; [BOW: pl. 64, f. 1]
Pierella lamia lamia ; [NL4A, #523a]

P. l. chalybaea Godman, 1905

Brazil(Mato Grosso), Colombia lamia chalybaea Godman, 1905; , TL: Brazil, Chapada [Mato Grosso]
Haetera lamia f. columbina Krüger, 1925; , TL: Colombia

= ; [NL4A, #523c]

Pierella lamia chalybaea ; [EcuL]; [NL4A, #523c]

P. l. boliviana Brown, 1948

Bolivia lamia boliviana Brown, 1948; , TL: Bolivia
Pierella lamia boliviana ; [NL4A, #523b]

Pierella lena (Linnaeus, 1767)

Surinam, Guianas, .... See [About maps] Papilio lena Linnaeus, 1767; , TL: "America meridionali"
Pierella lena, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Papilio lena ; Cramer, [1779], Uitl. Kapellen 3 (17-21): pl. 198
Haetera lena ; Hewitson, 1860, Ill. exot. Butts [4] (Haetera): [39], pl. [21], f. 2
Pierella lena ; [NL4A, #524]; [BOW: pl. 63, f. 10]; [EBW]

500x397 (~70Kb) Venezuela, Parai Tepui near Mount Roraima in the Gran Sabana, July 2002, Photo © Simon Coombes

P. l. lena

Papilio sectator Meerburgh, 1775

= ; [NL4A, #524a]

Pierella lena lena ; [NL4A, #524a]

P. l. brasiliensis C. & R. Felder, 1862

Peru, Bolivia, Brazil(Amazonas) Haetera lena var. brasiliensis C. & R. Felder, 1862; Wien. ent. Monats. 6 (4): 125, TL: "Rio Negro" [= Peru, San Martin]
Pierella lena glaucolena Weymer, 1910; , TL: Bolivia

= ; [NL4A, #524b]

Pierella lena f. melanosa Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948; (nom. nud.), TL: Brazil, Amazonas

= ; [NL4A, #524b]

f. obsoleta Brown, 1948; , TL: Brazil, Amazonas

= ; [NL4A, #524b]

Pierella lena browni Forster, 1964; , TL: Brazil, Amazonas

= ; [NL4A, #524b]

Pierella lena brasiliensis ; [EcuL]; [NL4A, #524b]

Pierella lucia Weymer, 1885

Peru. See [About maps] Pierella lucia Weymer, 1885; , TL: Peru, Pebas
Pierella astyoche var. albomaculata Staudinger, 1887; , TL: "Upper Amazon"

= ; [NL4A, #525]

Pierella lucia, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Pierella astyoche lucia ;
Pierella lucia ; [EcuL]; [NL4A, #525]

Pierella luna (Fabricius, 1793)

-. See [About maps] Papilio luna Fabricius, 1793; Ent. Syst. 3 (1): 109, TL: "Surinam"
Haetera luna ; Hewitson, 1860, Ill. exot. Butts [4] (Haetera): [39], pl. [21], f. 3
Pierella luna ; Godman & Salvin, [1880], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 66; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 650; [NL4A, #526]

539x547 (~44Kb) male Belize, Central America, Photo © John Shuey

P. l. luna

Nicaragua - Colombia f. rubra Brown, 1948; , TL: Colombia

= ; [NL4A, #526a]

Pierella luna luna ; [BCR: 262, pl. 47]; [NL4A, #526a]

Larva on Heliconia [BCR]

P. l. pallida (Salvin & Godman, 1868)

Nicaragua Hetaera[sic] pallida Salvin & Godman, 1868; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 2 (8) : 142, TL: Nicaragua
Pierella luna pallida ; [NL4A, #526c]

P. l. rubecula Salvin & Godman, 1868

Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras Pierella rubecula Salvin & Godman, 1868; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 2 (8) : 142, TL: Guatemala
Haetera heracles Boisduval, 1870; , TL: Honduras

= ; [NL4A, #526d]

Pierella luna rubecula, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Pierella luna rubecula, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Pierella luna heracles ;
Pierella rubecula ; Godman & Salvin, [1880], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 67, 3: pl. 6, f. 10-11; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 651
Pierella luna rubecula ; [NL4A, #526d]

P. l. lesbia Staudinger, 1887

Colombia Pierella lesbia Staudinger, 1887; , TL: Rio San Juan, W. Colombia
Pierella luna lesbia ; [EcuL]; [NL4A, #526b]

Pierella nereis (Drury, [1782])

S.Brazil(Rio de Janeiro). See [About maps] Papilio nereis Drury, [1782]; Illust. Nat. Hist. Exot. Insects 3: index, : 48, pl. 35, f. 2-3, TL: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Pierella nereis, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Pierella nereis ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 63, f. 11]; [NL4A, #527]

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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.

[BCA]

electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA

[BCR]

DeVries; The Butterflies of Costa Rica 1; Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae

[BHL]

The; Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!

[BOA]

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

[BOW]

Lewis, 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

[EcuL]

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

[ILMB]

Interactive Listing of Mexican Butterflies

[John Shuey]

e-mail: jshuey at tnc.org; Director of Conservation Science; Indiana Office of The Nature Conservancy; http://www.nature.org

[LAMAS-NEO]

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

[NL4A]

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

[Simon Coombes]

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

[Wahlberg]

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

Some related literature:

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)

Doubleday, [1849]; Westwood, [1851]

The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habitats and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus; illustrated with 86 plates by W. C. Hewitson Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): 1-18, pl. A, 1-4 (1-2) (1846), (1): 19-132, pl. 4*, 5-25, 28 (3-14) (1847), (1): 133-200, pl. 1*, 26, 27, 29, 31-44 (15-23) (1848), (1): 201-242, pl. 30, 45-52, 56-58, 60-62, 64 (24-31) (1849), (1): 243-250 [?], (2): 243-326, pl. 53-55, 63, 65, 66 (32-38) (1850), (2): 327-466, pl. 59, 67-77 (39-50) (1851), (2): 467-534, 143, 144, pl. 78-80 (Index) (51-54) (1852)

Drury, [1782]

Illustrations of natural history; wherein are exhibited ... Illust. Nat. Hist. Exot. Insects 3 : 1-76, pl. 1-50

C. & R. Felder, 1862

Specimen faunae lepidopterologicae riparum fluminis Negro superioris in Brasilia septentrionali Wien. ent. Monats. 6 (3): 65-80, (4): 109-126, (6): 175-192, (7): 229-235

Godman & Salvin, 1868; Salvin & Godman, 1868

On some new species of diurnal Lepidoptera from South America Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 2 (8) : 141-152

Godman & Salvin, 1877

Description of twelwe new species and a new genus of Rhopalocera from Central America Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1877 (1) : 60-64

Godman & Salvin, [1880]

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

Herrich-Schäffer, 1865

Lepidopterorum index systematicus CorrespBl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg 18 (11/12): 175-181 (1865), 19 (5): 63-76, 19 (6): 84-92, 19 (7): 100-108

Hewitson, 1860

Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson Ill. exot. Butts [4] : (Systematic Index) IV, (Clerome): [1-2], pl. [1] (1863), (Drusilla & Hyantis): [3-4], pl. [2] (1862), (Dasyophthalma & Thaumantis): [5-6], pl. [3] (1862), (Morpho I): [7-8], pl. [4] (1856), (Pavonia I-II): [9-10], pl. [5-6] (1877), (Opsiphanes): [11-12], pl. [7] (1873), (Corades): [13-14], pl. [8] (1863), (Pronophila): [15-16], pl. [9] (1857), (Pronophila II): [17-18], pl. [10] (1860), (Pronophila III-IV): [19-22], pl. [11-12] (1868), (Pronophila V): [23-24], pl. [13] (1871), (Pronophila VI-VII): [25-28], pl. [14-15] (1872), (Pronophila VIII-IX): [29-32], pl. [16-17] (1874), (Debis I): [33-34], pl. [18] (1862), (Debis II-III): [35-38], pl. [19-20] (1863), (Haetera): [39-40], pl. [21] (1860), (Daedalma): [41-42], pl. [22] (1858), (Euptychia & Ragadia): [43-44], pl. [23] (1862), (Hypocista): [45-46], pl. [24] (1863), (Mycalesis I-IV): [47-54], pl. [25-28] (1862), (Mycalesis V-VI): [55-58], pl. [29-30] (1864), (Mycalesis VII-VIII): [59-62], pl. [31-32] (1866), (Mycalesis IX): [63-64], pl. [33] (1873), (Mycalesis & Idiomorphus): [65-66], pl. [34] (1877), (Idiomorphus): [67-68], pl. [35] (1865), (Melanitis): [69-70], pl. [36] (1863), (Taxila): [71-72], pl. [37] (1861), (Taxila II): [73-74], pl. [38] (1862), (Sospita): [75-76], pl. [39] (1861), (Sospita II): [77-78], pl. [40] (1862), (Dodona Sospita): [79-80], pl. [41] (1866), (Mesosemia I): [81-82], pl. [42] (1857), (Mesosemia II-III): [83-86], pl. [43-44] (1858), (Mesosemia IV-VI): [87-92], pl. [45-47] (1859), (Mesosemia VII-VIII): [93-96], pl. [48-49] (1860), (Mesosemia IX-X): [97-100], pl. [50-51] (1870), (Mesosemia XI): [101-102], pl. [52] (1871), (Mesosemia XII): [103-104], pl. [53] (1873), (Eurygona I-II): [105-108], pl. [54-55] (1853), (Eurygona III-IV): [109-112], pl. [56-57] (1855), (Eurygona V-VII): [113-118], pl. [58-60] (1856), (Eurygona VIII): [119-120], pl. [61] (1860), (Eurygona IX): [121-122], pl. [62] (1870), (Eurygona X): [123-124], pl. [63] (1872)

Rosenberg & Talbot, 1914

New South American butterflies Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1913 (4) : 671-682

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