Gegenes pumilio

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: Baorini
Genus: Gegenes
Species: Gegenes pumilio
Subspecies: G. p. gambica – G. p. monochroa – G. p. pumilio

Name

Gegenes pumilio (Hoffmannsegg, 1804)

Type Locality: Italy, Naples.

Holotype: tbc.

Synonymy

Papilio pygmaeus Cyrilli, 1787: txt, Tab.V Figs 5. Invalid; homonym, per Hesperia pygmaeus Fabricius, 1775: 536.
pygmaeus Esper, 1793: image, Hubner, 1803: ; misidentifications.
Papilio pumilio Hoffmannsegg, 1804: 202.
Gegenes pumilio pumilio (Hoffmannsegg); Evans, 1937: 188; Evans, 1949: 431.

References

Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page.
Cyrilli, D., 1787. Entomologiae neapolitanae specimen primum. Neapoli. 12 Plates. Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1–212. Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix+502pp., 53 pls. BMNH, London. Reference page.
Hoffmannsegg, J.C. 1804. Alphabetisches Verzeichniss zu J. Hübner's Abbildungen der Papilionen mit den beigefügten vorzüglichsten Synonymen. Magazin für Insektenkunde 3: 181–206. BHL. Reference page.
de Jong, R. & Coutsis, J.G. 2017. A re-appraisal of Gegenes Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) based on male and female genitalia, with the description of a new genus, Afrogegenes. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 160(1): 41–60. DOI: 10.1163/22119434-16001003. Reference page.
Toussaint, E.F.A., Vila, R., Yago, M., Chiba, H., Warren, A.D., Aduse-Poku, K., Storer, C., Dexter, K.M., Maruyama, K., Lohman, D.J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2019. Out of the Orient: Post-Tethyan transoceanic and trans-Arabian routes fostered the spread of Baorini skippers in the Afrotropics. Systematic Entomology 44(4): 926–938. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12365 Reference page.

Vernacular names

Afrikaans: Swarthotnot
English: Pigmy Skipper, Dark Hottentot
français: Hespérie du barbon