Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Eudaminae
Tribus: Eudamini
Subtribus: Loboclina
Genus: Zestusa
Species (4):
Z. dorus –
Z. elwesi –
Z. levona –
Z. staudingeri
Name
Zestusa Lindsey, 1925
Type species: Plestia staudingeri Mabille, 1888.
Synonymy
- Plestia Mabille, 1888: 146 (preocc. Plestia Stål, [1870] [Hemiptera]).
- Type species: Plestia staudingeri Mabille, 1888.
- Zestusa Lindsey, 1925: 106 (repl. Plestia Mabille, 1888); Hemming, 1967ː 466.
References
Primary references
- Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
- Lindsey, A.W. 1925. The Types of Hesperioid Genera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 18(1): 75-106. Reference page.
- Mabille, P. 1888. Description de Lépidoptéres (Hespérides) nouveaux. Le Naturaliste (10)2(31): 146–148, 169-171, 180-181. Reference page.
Additional references
- Grishin, N.V. 2019. Expanded phenotypic diagnoses for 24 recently named new taxa of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). The Taxonomic Report 8(1): 1–15. PDF. Reference page.
- Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page.
- Li, W., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Zhang, J., Hallwachs, W., Janzen, D.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns. PNAS 116(13): 6232–6237. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1821304116. Text. SI Appendix. Reference page.
- Steinhauser, S.R. 1972. The genus Zestusa (Hesperiidae) in El Salvador with description of a new species. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 26(3): 127–132. PDF. Reference page.