Pedesta

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: Aeromachini
Genus: Pedesta
Species: P. baileyi – P. bivitta – P. blanchardii – P. fusca – P. gupta – P. hyrie – P. jinoae – P. kuata – P. latris – P. luanchuanensis – P. masuriensis – P. similissima – P. submacula – P. xiaoqingae – P. yingqii – P. shinnookaensis – P. wangi – P. zinnia

Name

Pedesta Hemming, 1934

Type species: Isoteinon masuriensis Moore, 1878.

Synonymy

Pedestes Watson, 1893: 71, 81 (preocc. Pedestes Gray, 1842). Type species: Isoteinon masuriensis Moore, 1878.
Pedesta Hemming, 1934ː 38; 1967ː 348; Evans, 1949ː 248; Bridges, 1994ː IV.24. (replacement name).

References

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.
Hemming, A. F., 1934. Some notes on the nomenclature of Palaearctic and African Rhopalocera. Stylops 3(5): 97–99. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1934.tb01555.x 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.
Huang, H. & Zhan, C.H. 2004. Notes on the genera Thoressa and Pedesta, with description of a new species from South China (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 57: 179–186. Reference page.
Huang, H. 2019. New or little known butterflies from China - 3 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 78: 203–255. PDF. Reference page.
Huang, Z.F., Chiba, H., Jin, J., Kizhakke, A.G., Wang, M., Kunte, K. & Fan, X.L. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology 44: 163–178. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12322 . Reference page.
Li, M., Monastyrskii, A.L., Kolesnichenko, K.A., Liu, Z-H., Xue, G-X., Long. J-F. & Tang, H-X. 2020. Morphological and molecular characters reveal the status of Pedesta rubella (Devyatkin, 1996) stat. n. and P. similissima (Devyatkin, 2002) syn. n. (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). Zootaxa 4743(2): 217–231. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4743.2.5 Reference page.
Li, Y., Zhu, J., Ge, C., Wang, Y., Zhao, Z., Ma, S., Hoffmann, A.A., Endersby, N.M., Liu, Q., Yu, W. & Jiang, W. 2019. Molecular Phylogeny and Historical Biogeography of the Butterfly Tribe Aeromachini Tutt (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from China. Cells 8(4), 294. DOI: 10.3390/cells8040294 Reference page.
Watson, E.Y. 1893. A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893(1): 3–132, 3 pls. Reference page.
Xue, G-X., Li, M., Zhu, J-Q., Lu, W-C., Li, J-L. & Zheng, B. 2019. Descriptions of Pedesta wangi sp. nov. and the female of P. xiaoqingae (Huang & Zhan, 2004) from China (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Zootaxa 4700(3): 356–364. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4700.3.4 Reference page.