Polites mardon

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: Hesperiini
Subtribus: Hesperiina
Genus: Polites
Species: Polites mardon

Name

Polites mardon W.H. Edwards, 1881.

Type localityː "Mt. Hood" recte Tenino Prairie, Thurston County, Washigton per Brown & Miller, 1980.

Typusː Lectotype ♂, CMNH, designated by Brown & Miller, 1985ː 54.

Synonymy

Pamphila mardon Edwards, 1881ː 47.
Polites mardon (Edwards); Brown & Miller, 1980ː 53; Bridges, 1994aː VIII.135, IX.50; Mattoon & Emmelx2, 1998ː .

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.
Brown, F.M. and Miller, L.D. (1980). The Types of the Hesperiid Butterflies Named by W.H. Edwards. 2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 106(1): 43-89, Fig.15. Reference page.
Edwards, W.H., 1881. Descriptions of new species of Butterflies. Papilio 1(4): 43-48. Reference page.
Mattoon, S., Emmel, J.F. & Emmel, T., 1998. The distribution of Polites mardon (Lep. Hesperiidae) in North America, and a Description of a New Subspecies from Southern Oregon. In Systematics of Western North American Butterflies. 65: 767-774. Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Mardon skipper