Sloperia

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
Subtribus: Carcharodina
Genus: Muschampia
Subgenus: Sloperia
Species (7): M. lutulentus – M. musta – M. plurimacula – M. poggei – M. prometheus – M. proteus – M. staudingeri

Name

Sloperia Tutt, 1906.

Type species: Hesperia poggei Lederer, 1858.

Synonymy

• Sloperia Tutt, 1906: 218; Hemming, 1967: 413.
• Reverdinia Warren, 1926: 15. Type species: Pyrgus staudingeri Speyer, 1879.
• =Muschampia Tutt, 1906; Evans, 1949: 179; Bridges, 1994: IV.30.
• Muschampia (Sloperia) [Tutt]; Zhang et al., 2020: 190.

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. 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. 
• Lederer, J. 1858. Noch einige syrische Schmetterlinge. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift 2(5): 135–152, pl. 2–4. Reference page. 
• Tutt, J.W. 1905–1906. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera Vol 8, Butterflies (1): 479pp, 20 pls. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. BHL. Reference page. 
• Warren, B.C.S., 1926. Monograph of the Tribe Hesperiidi (European Species) with Revised Classification of the Subfamily Hesperiinae (Palaearctic Species) Based on the Genital Armature of the Males. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 74(1): 1–167. paid PDF. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1926.tb01184.x Reference page. 
• Zhang, J., Brockmann, E., Cong, Q., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2020. A genomic perspective on the taxonomy of the subtribe Carcharodina (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Carcharodini). Zootaxa 4748(1): 182–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.10 Reference page.