Mylon maimon

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: Pyrginae
Tribus: Erynnini
Subtribus: Erynnina
Genus: Mylon
Species: Mylon maimon

Name

Mylon maimon Fabricius, 1775.

Type locality: "Asia", recte S. America, probably Guyana.

Typus: Lectotype ♂ ZMUC, by Vane-Wright, 1977. images.

Papilio maimon Fabricius, 1775: 534.
Papilio menippus Fabricius, 1776: 272. Surinam.
Mylon melander var. albescens Mabille & Boullet, 1917: 55. TL: Venezuela, MNHP
=Heliopetes nivela Mabille; Draudt, [1924]: 915, Pl.178 Row e.
Achylodes meleander (Fabricius); Kohler, 1923. Mis-spelling.

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