Pholisora

Pholisora Scudder, 1872

Pholisora Scudder, 1872; 4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 72; TS: Hesperia catullus Fabricius

Philisora; Dury, 1880, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Pholisara; Okano, 1981, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Pholisera; Anon., 1948, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Pholison; Elrod & Malley, 1906, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]
Pholisora; Godman & Salvin, [1897], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 441; [P&N23]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Pholisora (Pyrgini); [NL4A], 52
Pholisoria; Bales, 1909, (missp.); [NHM-BMW] ; [NHM-BMW]
Pholisura; Anon., 1947, (missp.); [NHM-BMW]

Pholisora catullus (Fabricius, 1793)

S.Canada, USA - N.Mexico. See [maps] Common Sootywing Roadside Rambler

Hesperia catullus Fabricius, 1793; Ent. Syst. 3 (1): 348; TL: "Indiis" [USA, Georgia?]

Pholisora catalus; Hoy, 1883, (missp.)
Pholisora catullus; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52: 58; [NACL], #3977; [NAB], 769; [BOC], 62; [NL4A], #947; [Opler]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [BOA] ; [BAMONA]

800x1018 (~193Kb) upperside USA: LepSoc field trip to Patagonia region, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, 2.8.2005, Photo © Markku Savela	800x1024 (~138Kb) USA: LepSoc field trip to Patagonia region, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, 2.8.2005, Photo © Markku Savela	900x707 (~121Kb) upperside USA: LepSoc field trip to Patagonia region, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, 2.8.2005, Photo © Markku Savela
1100x882 (~119Kb) underside USA: LepSoc field trip to Patagonia region, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, 3.8.2005, Photo © Markku Savela

Pholisora crestar Scott & Davenport, 2017

Pholisora catullus crestar Scott & Davenport, 2017

Pholisora crestar; Zhang, Cong, Shen, Opler & Grishin, 2020, Taxonomic Rep. 8 (7): 30; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [iNaturalist] ; [BAMONA]

Pholisora mejicanus (Reakirt, [1867])

Colorado, Texas, Mexico, .... See [maps] Mexican Sootywing

Nisoniades mejicanus Reakirt, [1867]; Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 18 (4): 334; TL: Mexico, Veracruz

Pholisora mejicana; [NACL], #3978; [NAB], 769 (note)
Pholisora mejicanus; [BOW]: pl. 22, f. 25; [NL4A], #948; [Opler]; [MPG] ; [P&N23]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [BOA] ; [BAMONA]
Pholisora mexicana[sic, mejicana]; Godman & Salvin, [1897], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 441, 3: pl. 90, f. 11-12; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52: 58

Pholisora elis J. B. Smith, 1891; (nom. nud.)

elis; [NL4A], 52

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

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, 1793
Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Ent. Syst. 3 (1) : 1-487
Godman & Salvin, [1897]
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
[NL4A]; Lamas, 2004
Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
[NAB]; Pyle, 1981
Field Guide to North American Butterflies, National Audubon Society
[BOC]; Pyle, 2002
The Butterflies of Cascadia
Reakirt, [1867]
Descriptions of some new species of Diurnal Lepidoptera. Series II Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 18 (4): 331-336 (1867), (5): 337-342 (1867)
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
Zhang, Cong, Shen, Opler & Grishin, 2020
Genomic evidence suggests further changes of butterfly names Taxonomic Rep. 8 (7) : 1-41

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