Mestra

Mestra Hübner, [1825]

Mestra Hübner, [1825]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 2: pl. [45]; TS: Mestra hypermestra Hübner
Cystineura Boisduval, [1836]; Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 1: pl. 9 [= pl. 5B], f. 1; TS: Papilio hersilia Fabricius
- = Mestra; [NL4A], 235; [Wahlberg, 2023]

Cystineura; Godman & Salvin, [1883], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 277; [NHM-BMW]
Mestra; [P&N23]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Mestra (Biblidini); [Wahlberg, 2023]
Mestra (Eurytelina); [EcuL]; [NL4A], 235
Mnestra; [NHM-BMW]
Mnestra[sic, Mestra]; Kirby, 1871, Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep.: 217

Mestra dorcas (Fabricius, 1775)

Jamaica, Colombia, Venezuela. See [maps]

Papilio dorcas Fabricius, 1775; Syst. Ent.: 508; TL: "Carolina" [error, = Jamaica]
Mestra bogotana C. & R. Felder, 1867; ; TL: Nova Granada, Bototá

Mestra bogotana; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Mestra dorcas; [NL4A], #1737; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [BOA]

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 amymone cowiana; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Mestra amymone floridana; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Mestra cana; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Mestra dorcas hersilia; [NL4A], #1737d
Mestra hersilia hersilia; [iNaturalist]
Mestra hersilia; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

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 dorcas hypermestra; [NL4A], #1737e
Mestra hypermestra tocantina; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Mestra hypermestra; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Mestra hypermnestra[sic, hypermestra]; Hemming, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. (Ent.) Suppl. 9: 288; [BOW]: pl. 39, f. 11

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

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; [NAB], 645; [BCR]: 137, pl. 22; [BOW]: pl. 14, f. 7; [Opler]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [BOA] ; [BAMONA]
Mestra dorcas amymone; [NL4A], #1737b

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

M. d. latimargo (Hall, 1929) Ecuador

Cystineura latimargo Hall, 1929; ; TL: Ecuador, Arenillas

Mestra dorcas latimargo; [EcuL]; [NL4A], #1737f
Mestra hypermestra latimargo; [LepIndex]; [CoL]

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

dorcas semifulva (C. & R. Felder, 1867) (Cystineura); ; TL: Colombia

Mestra dorcas semifulva; [NL4A], #1737g
Mestra hersilia semifulva; [iNaturalist]
Mestra semifulva; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]

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
[LAMAS-NEO] Gerardo Lamas
Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)
[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
[Wahlberg]
Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[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.

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) (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
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: 1-741 (?782), 3: pl. 1-112
Hemming, 1967
Generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bull. Br. Mus. (Ent.) Suppl. 9 : 5-509
[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)
Kirby, 1871
A synonymic catalogue of the diurnal Lepidoptera Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep.: vii + 690pp : 1-690
[NL4A]; Lamas, 2004
Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
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)
[NAB]; Pyle, 1981
Field Guide to North American Butterflies, National Audubon Society
[EcuL]; Racheli & Racheli, 2001
An annotated list of Ecuadorian Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae) Frag. ent. 33 (2) : 213-380
Strecker, 1900
Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic Lep. Rhopal. Het., Suppl. 3 : 13-37,38
[BCR]; DeVries, 1987
Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae The Butterflies of Costa Rica 1
Weeks, 1902
Descriptions of six new butterflies from Bolivia Proc. New England Zool. Club 3 : 1-7

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