Agathymus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Megathymini
Genus: Agathymus
Species (30): A. alliae – A. aryxna – A. baueri – A. belli – A. chisosensis – A. comstocki – A. dawsoni – A. escalantei – A. estelleae – A. evansi – A. fieldi – A. gentryi – A. gilberti – A. hoffmanni – A. indecisa – A. juliae – A. mariae – A. micheneri – A. neumoegeni – A. polingi – A. remingtoni – A. rethon – A. ricei – A. rindgei – A. stephensi – A. tehuacanus

Name

Agathymus Freeman, 1959.

Type species: Megathymus neumoegeni Edwards, 1882ː 27, by original designation.

Synonymy

♦ Agathymus Freeman, 1959ː 82; Hemming, 1967ː 30; Bridges, 1994ː IV.2; Lamas, 2004ː85; Glassberg, 2017ː 288; Li et al., 2019ː 74, 77, 91.

References

• Edwards, W.H., 1882. Description of Species of Butterflies taken in Arizona by Jacob Doll, 1881. Papilio 2(2): 19-29. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1951–55. A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidae in the British Museum. Pt.1 (1951): x+92pp, pls.1–9; Pt.2 (1952): v.+178pp, pls.10–25; Pt.3 (1953): v+246pp, pls.26–53; Pt.4 (1955): v+499pp, pls. 54–88. Reference page. 
• Freeman, H.A., 1952. Two new species of Megathymus from Texas & Mexico (Lepidoptera Rhopalocera Megathymidae). American Museum Novitates 1593: 1-9, figs. 1-13. Reference page. 
• Freeman, H.A., 1955. Four new species of Megathymus. American Museum Novitates 1711: 1-20, figs 1-34; PDF. Reference page. 
• Freeman, H.A., 1959. A revision of the genera of the Megathymidae, with the description of Three new genera. The Lepidopterists' News 12(3-4): 81-92. (26 Jan 1959) Reference page. 
• Freeman, H.A., 1960. Notes of Agathymus in Texas, and the description of a new species from Mexico. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 14(1): 58-62, 1 pl. Reference page. 
• García Díaz, J. de J. & Turrent Carriles, A. 2020. Descripción de una nueva especie de Agathymus Freeman, 1959 (Hesperiidae: Megathymini), del Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán, México. Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Lepidopterología 8(1): 24-34. ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Glassberg, J., 2017. A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America 2nd Edn. Princeton University Press. 304pp; ill. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• Stallings, D.B., Turner, J.R. & Stallings, V.N. 1966. Two new species and two new subspecies of Megathymidae from Mexico and the United States. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 20(3): 163–172. PDF. Reference page. 

Links

Lepindex; Butterflies of America; Encyclopedia of Life