Poanes melane vitellina (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
('Mexican' Umber Skipper)

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(From: A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, Jonathan P. Pelham)

Genus Poanes Scudder, 1872

4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 76. Type-species: Hesperia massasoit Scudder, 1863, Proc. Essex Inst. 3: 171, no. 65, by original designation. Burns (1992), J. Lepid. Soc. 46(1): 1-23, discussed the probability that this genus is polyphyletic, and created species groups. The first group includes hobomok, zabulon and taxiles, while the second group includes massasoit, viator, aaroni and yehl (massasoit may belong in its own group). Burns also transferred melane to Poanes from Paratrytone, and noted that at least some Poanes species may belong in Ochlodes.

=    Phycanassa Scudder, 1872

4th Ann. Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci. (1871): 77. Type-species: Hesperia viator W. H. Edwards, 1865, Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philad. 4(1): 202-203, pl. 1, fig. 5, by original designation.

      =    ‡Paratrytone Dyar, 1905

J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 13(3): 136. Type-species: Pamphila howardi Skinner, 1896, Can. Entomol. 28(7): 187 (= Pamphila aaroni Skinner, 1890, Entomol. News 1(1): 6; subspecies), by original designation. Preoccupied by Paratrytone Godman, 1900, in: Godman & Salvin, Biol. centr.-amer., Lepid. Rhop. 2(157): 487.

Poanes melane melane (W. H. Edwards, 1869)

Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 2(3): 312.

Original Combination: Hesperia Melane

Type Locality: “California”; defined as “San Francisco Bay area, California” by F. Brown and L. Miller (1980), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 106(1): 75.

Types: Lectotype in FMNH, designated by F. Brown and L. Miller (1980), Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 106(1): 75, fig. 23 ♂ D&V.

Poanes melane vitellina (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)

Corresp-Bl. zool.-min Ver. Regensb. 23(12): 199, no. 25.

Original Combination: [Cobalus] vitellina

Type Locality: Not stated.

Types: Type(s) may be in NMW.

Burns (1992), J. Lepid. Soc. 46(1): 14, suggested that this may be a species-level taxon.

‡”marmarosa” (Godman, 1900)

In: Godman & Salvin, Biol. centr.-amer., Lepid. Rhop. 2(157): 495.

Original Combination: Pamphila marmarosa

Godman cited this as a Staudinger name without a description or indication; a nomen nudum.

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