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Hesperiidae 77a0004 – 3867   Phocides urania (Westwood, 1852)

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: urania (Westwood, 1852) (Erycides) UNVER.; STRAY - MONA 1983: 3867  texana (Scudder, 1872) (Erycides) (synonym of ssp. urania) Taxonomic Notes: Phocides urania (Westwood, 1852) is listed as "UNVER.; STRAY" north of Mexico in Pelham & Pohl in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023). The type of Erycides texana Scudder, 1872:47, a synonym of urania, was described from Texas but the provenance is questioned in Pelham (208:427) as are records from Arizona in Bailowitz and Brock (1991).

References

Pelham, J.P., 2008. A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, 40: 427. Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.), 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California, xiv + 580 pp. (order). Species Page at BugGuide.Net

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