Pellicia

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: Pyrginae
Tribus: Carcharodini
Genus: Pellicia
Subgenera: P. (Hemipterus) – P. (Mictris) – P. (Pellicia) – Species: P. alta – P. angra – P. arina – P. costimacula – P. demetrius – P. dimidiata – P. hersilia – P. klugi – P. najoides – P. ranta – P. santana – P. simulator – P. theon – P. tonga – P. trax – P. tyana – P. vecina

Name

Pellicia Herrich-Schäffer, 1870

Type species: Pellicia dimidiata Herrich-Schäffer, 1870

Synonymy

• Pellicia Herrich-Schäffer, 1870: 159.
• Pellicia Plötz, 1879: 176. Invalid, junior synonym per Hemming, 1967ː 350.
• Hemipteris Mabille, 1889ː 216, per Hemming, 1967ː 214.
• Peilicia [sic] Hayward, 1947. Mis-spelling.

References

• Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1869–70. Systematis Lepidopterorum, Hesperiina. Correspondenz-Blatt des zoologischer-mineralogische Verein in Regensburg. Vol. 23: 59–64, 67–77, 130–141, 163–172, 184–204; Vol. 24: 154–160. Reference page. 
• Hayward, K.J., 1947. Una especie y forma nuevas de Hesperidos argentinos (Lep. Rhop. Hesp.) Acta Zoologica Lilloana 3:253-255, 1 fig. 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. 
• Mielke, O.H.H. 1979. Contribution to the faunistic study of the American Hesperiidae, V supplementary note to the species of Pyrrhopyginae and Pyrginae of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Lepidoptera). Acta Biológica Paranaense 8: 7–17. PDF. Reference page. 
• Plötz, C. 1879. Hesperiina Herr. Sch.. Entomologische Zeitung 40: 175-180. Reference page. 
• Steinhauser, S.R., 1989. Taxonomic notes and descriptions of new taxa in the neotropical Hesperiidae. Part I. Pyrginae. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 127: 1–70. Reference page. 
• Steinhauser, S.R. 2007. Four new species of neotropical skippers from Colombia, Peru and Brazil (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 147: 1–11. Reference page. 
• Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J.H., Song, L. & Grishin, N.V. 2023r. Genomics-based taxonomic rearrangement of Achlyodini and Carcharodini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Insecta Mundi 1016: 1-33. Reference page.