Gegenes pumilio 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. pumilio

Gegenes pumilio pumilio (Hoffmannsegg, 1804)

Type Locality: Naples.

Holotype: tbc.

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

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.
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.

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