Polygonus

Polygonus Hübner, [1825]

Polygonus Hübner, [1825]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 2: pl. [144]; TS: Polygonus lividus Hübner
Acolastus Scudder, 1872; 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 71 (preocc. Acolastus Gerstaecker, 1855 (Coleoptera)); TS: Hesperia savignyi[sic, savigny] Latreille
- = Polygonus; [NL4A], 38
Nennius Kirby, [1902]; in Hübner, Samml. exot. Schmett. (Wytsman's facsim.), Additional Notes: 105 (repl. for Polygonus Hübner); TS: Polygonus lividus Hübner

Acolastus; Godman & Salvin, [1893], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 303; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Nennius; [NHM-BMW]
Poligonus; Hayward, 1933, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Polygenus; Hemming, 1967, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Polygonius; Spitz, 1932, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Polygonus; [P&N23]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Polygonus (Eudamini); [NL4A], 38

Polygonus leo (Gmelin, [1790])

Argentina, .... See [maps] Hammock Skipper

Papilio leo Gmelin, [1790]; (repl. name)

Polygonus leo; [NACL], #3872; [NL4A], #442; [Opler]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [BOA] ; [BAMONA]

484x510 (~28Kb) Belize, Central America, Photo © John Shuey

P. l. leo Brazil - Florida, Hispaniola, Haiti

Papilio amyntas Fabricius, 1775; Syst. Ent.: 533 (preocc. Poda, 1761); TL: America
- = ; [NL4A], #442a
Astraptes lividus Hübner, [1819]; (nom. nud.)
Polygonus lividus Hübner, [1825]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 2: pl. [144]; TL: [Hispaniola]
- = ; [NL4A], #442a
Polygonus leo ishmael Evans, 1952; ; TL: Haiti
- = ; [NL4A], #442a

Acolastus amyntas; Godman & Salvin, [1893], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 304, 3: pl. 77, f. 9; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 734
Acolastus myntas; Mabille, 1903, (missp.)
Erycides amaytas; Skinner, 1899, (missp.)
Erycides amyntas; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52: 56
Hesperia amyntas; Plötz, 1882, Stettin ent. Ztg 43 (7-9): 329
Polygonus leo ishmael; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Polygonus leo leo; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2) (3): 159; [NL4A], #442a; [iNaturalist]
Polygonus leo lividus; [BOW]: pl. 85, f. 21; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Polygonus lividus; [iNaturalist]
Telegonus lividius; Burmeister, 1878, (missp.)

P. l. arizonensis (Skinner, 1911) Arizona, S.California, Arizona, W.Texas, S.New Mexico, Mexico

leo arizonensis (Skinner, 1911) (Erycides); ; TL: Arizona

Polygonus arizonensis; [iNaturalist]
Polygonus leo arizonensis; [NACL], #3872b; [NL4A], #442b; [P&N23]; [iNaturalist]

P. l. hagar Evans, 1952 Jamaica

Polygonus leo hagar Evans, 1952; ; TL: Jamaica

Polygonus leo hagar; [NL4A], #442c

P. l. histrio Röber, 1925

leo histrio Röber, 1925; ; TL: "Panama"

Polygonus leo histrio; [NL4A], #442d; [P&N23]; [iNaturalist]

P. l. pallida Röber, 1925 Peru

Polygonus pallida Röber, 1925; ; TL: Peru

Polygonus leo pallida; [NL4A], #442e; [iNaturalist]
Polygonus pallida; [BOA]

Polygonus savigny (Latreille, [1824])

St. Christoper, Montserrat, St.-Barthélémy, S.Florida, Antilles, Argentina, CA, SA. See [maps] Manuel's Skipper

Hesperia savigny Latreille, [1824]; Encyclopédie Méthodique 9 (2): 741; TL: "Antilles"

Acolastus savignyi[sic, savigny]; Scudder, 1872, 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 71
Polygonus leo savigny; [NACL], #3872a; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Polygonus savigny; [NL4A], #443; [Opler]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [iNaturalist] ; [BOA] ; [BAMONA]
Polygonus savignyi[sic, savigny];

P. s. savigny Brazil(Santa Catarina), ...?

Polygonus manueli Bell & Comstock, 1948; ; TL: Brazil, Santa Catarina
- = Polygonus savignyi; Mielke & Casagrande, 2002, Rev. Bras. Zool. 19 (suppl. 1): (27-76)
- = ; [NL4A], #443a
Polygonus mimeticus J. & W. Zikán, 1968; (nom. nud.)
- = ; [NL4A], #443a

Goniloba savignyi[sic, savigny]; Westwood, 1852
Polygonus manneli[sic, manueli]; Silva et al., 1968
Polygonus manueli manueli; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2) (3): 159
Polygonus manueli; [NAB]; [BOW]: pl. 85, f. 21 (text); [NACL], #3873; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Polygonus manuelli[sic, manueli]; Maza & White, 1990
Polygonus savigny savigny; [NL4A], #443a; [P&N23]; [iNaturalist]

P. s. punctus Bell & Comstock, 1948 St. Vincent

savigny punctus Bell & Comstock, 1948; ; TL: St. Vincent

Polygonus manueli punctus; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Polygonus savigny punctus; [NL4A], #443b

References:

[BAMONA] Opler, Pavulaan, Stanford & 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
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[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
[John Shuey]
e-mail: jshuey at tnc.org; Director of Conservation Science; Indiana Office of The Nature Conservancy; http://www.nature.org
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
[MPG]
North American Moth Photographers Group
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Opler] Opler & Warren, 2003
Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.
[P&N23] Pohl & Nanz, 2023
Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, north of Mexico
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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Some related literature:

Brown & Mielke, 1967
Lepidoptera of the Central Brazil Plateau. I. Preliminary list of Rhopalocera J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2) (2): 77-106, (3): 145-168
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. : 1-832
Latreille, [1824]
Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes Encyclopédie Méthodique 9 (1): 3-328 (1819), (2): 329-828 ([1824])
Godman & Salvin, [1893]; Godman & Salvin, [1901]
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. (1887-1901) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 1-741 (?782), 3: pl. 1-112
[NACL]; Hodges, 1983
Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico Check List Lep. Am. N of Mexico
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)
[NL4A]; Lamas, 2004
Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Mielke & Casagrande, 2002
Notas taxonõmicas em Hesperiidae neotropicais, com descrições de novos taxa Rev. Bras. Zool. 19 (suppl. 1) : 27-76
Plötz, 1882
Die Hesperiinen-Gattung Hesperia Aut. und ihre Arten Stettin ent. Ztg 43 (7-9): 314-344, (10-12): 436-456
[NAB]; Pyle, 1981
Field Guide to North American Butterflies, National Audubon Society
Scudder, 1872
A systematic Revision of some of the American Butterflies; with brief notes on those known to occur in Essex County, Mass. 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871) : 24-83,errata

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