Gegenes

Gegenes Hübner, [1819] Pygmy Skippers, Hottentots

Gegenes Hübner, [1819]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (7): 107; TS: Papilio pumilio Hoffmannsegg
Philoodus Rambur, 1840; Faune ent. Andal. 2 (5): 308; TS: Hesperia nostrodamus Fabricius

Gegenes; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Gegenes (Hesperiinae); [BK], 436; [AfrL]; Korb & Bolshakov, 2011, Eversmannia Suppl. 2: 13
Philoodus; [NHM-BMW]

Gegenes nostrodamus (Fabricius, 1793)

SEU, N.Africa(Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt), Asia Minor, Turkestan, N.India. See [maps] Dingy Swift Veloz de las Rieras Mediterranean Skipper

Hesperia nostrodamus Fabricius, 1793; Ent. Syst. 3 (1): 328, no. 246; TL: "Barbaria" [NW.Africa]
proclea Walker, 1870
Hesperia karsana Moore, [1875]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4): 576, pl. 67, f. 6; TL: Rawul Pindi, N.Punjab
Gegenes nostradamus [= nostrodamus]; [BIR], 488

Gegenes nostrodamus; [H&R], 3337; [BOW]: pl. 11, f. 16, 17; [BRU], 132; [AfrL]; [Otakar Kudrna]; Korb & Bolshakov, 2011, Eversmannia Suppl. 2: 13; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [MBE]
Genenes nostrodamus; [BMAT]: 98, pl. 31, f. 58-61
Pamphila nostrodamus; Grum-Grshimailo, 1890, in Romanoff, Mém. Lép. 4: 507
Philoodus nostrodamus; Rambur, 1840, Faune ent. Andal. 2 (5): 308

Gegenes pumilio (Hoffmannsegg, 1804)

SEU, Morocco, Iran, Himalaya, AF. See [maps] Pigmy Skipper

Papilio pumilio Hoffmannsegg, 1804; Mag. f. Insektenk. 3: 202; TL: Africa
aetna Boisduval, 1840
Philoodus lefebvrii Rambur, 1840; Faune ent. Andal. 2 (5): 308; TL: Sicily and Sardinia
Parnara (?) ursula Holland, 1896; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896 (1): 64
Pamphila occulta Trimen, 1891; Proc. zool. soc. Lond. 1891: 103

Gegenes lefebvrei[sic]; [BOW]: pl. 11, f. 13 (text)
Gegenes pumilio; [H&R], 337; [AfrL]; [Otakar Kudrna]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [MBE]
Gegenes ursula; [BOW]: pl. 129, f. 17
Genenes pumilio; [BMAT]: 98, pl. 31, f. 54-57

G. p. pumilio

Gegenes pumilio pumilio; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

G. p. gambica (Mabille, 1878) Africa, Arabia - Lebanon, Turkey - N.India Dark Hottentot Pygmy Skipper

Pamphila gambica Mabille, 1878; Petites Nouvelles ent. 10 (197): 233; TL: Senegambia

Gegenes pumilio gambica; [BK]: 436, pl. 64, f. 869; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

G. p. monochroa (Rebel, 1907)

Gegenes pumilio monochroa; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

Gegenes niso (Linnaeus, 1764)

Africa. See [maps]

Papilio niso Linnaeus, 1764; Mus. Lud. Ulr.: 339
Gegenes letterstedti Wallengren, 1857²

Gegenes niso; [PBSA]; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]

G. n. niso

Gegenes niso niso; [AfrL]

G. n. brevicornis (Plötz, 1884) Plain Hottentot

Gegenes niso brevicornis; [BK]: 437, pl. 64, f. 871; [AfrL]; [LepIndex]; [CoL]

Gegenes hottentota (Latreille, 1824)

Africa, SW.Arabia. See [maps] Hottentot Skipper Common Hottentot

Hesperia hottentota Latreille, 1824; Encyclopédie Méthodique 9 (2): 777

Gegenes hottentota; [BOW]: pl. 129, f. 15, 16; [PBSA]; [BK]: 436, pl. 64, f. 870; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]

G. h. ocra Evans Cape

Gegenes hottentota ocra; [PBSA]; [LepIndex]; [CoL]

References:

[AfrL] Mark C. Williams
Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); Afrototropical Butterflies; e-mail: Mark C. Williams
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[EVERSMANNIA]
Eversmannia contents
[HBN] Francis Hemming, 1937
HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
[MBE] Moths and Butteflies of Europe
Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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[²] This may require parentheses or not (original genus not verified)

Some related literature:

[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
Fabricius, 1793
Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Ent. Syst. 3 (1) : 1-487
Latreille, 1824
Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire naturelle Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes Encyclopédie Méthodique 9 (1): 3-328 (1819), (2): 329-828 ([1824])
Grum-Grshimailo, 1890
Le Pamir et sa faune lépidoptérologique in Romanoff, Mém. Lép. 4 : 1-576, pl. A,1-21
[H&R]; Higgins & Riley, 1970
A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe
Hoffmannsegg, 1804
Alphabetisches Verzeichniss zu J. Hübner's Abbildungen der Papilionen mit den beigefügten vorzüglichsten Synonymen Mag. f. Insektenk. 3 : 181-206
Holland, 1896
A Preliminary Revision and Synonymic Catalogue of the Hesperiidae of Africa and the adjacent Islands, with Descriptions of some apparently new species Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896 (1) : 2-107, pl. 1-5
Hübner, [1819]
Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, 1816-[1826] Verz. bek. Schmett. (1): [1-3], 4-16 (1816), (2): 17-32 (1819), (3): 33-48 (1819), (4): 49-64 (1819), (5): 65-80 (1819), (6): 81-96 (1819), (7): 97-112 (1819), (8): 113-128 (1819), (9): 129-144 (1819), (10): 145-160 (1819), (11): 161-176 (1819), (12): 177-192 (1820), (13): 193-208 (1820), (14): 209-224 (1821), (15): 225-240 (1821), (16): 241-256 (1821), (17): 257-272 (1823), (18): 273-288 (1823), (19): 289-304 (1823), (20): 305-320 (1825), (21): 321-336 (1825), (22): 337-352 (1825), (23-27): 353-431 ([1825])
Korb & Bolshakov, 2011
[A catalogue of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilioformes) of the former USSR. Second edition, reformatted and updated] (in Russian) Eversmannia Suppl. 2 : 1-123
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Linnaeus, 1764
Museum S'ae R'ae M'tis Ludovicae Ulricae Reginae Svecorum, Gothorum, Vandalorumque Mus. Lud. Ulr. : 1-720
Mabille, 1878
Descriptions de Lépidoptères nouveaux de la famille des Hespérides Petites Nouvelles ent. 10 (197): 233-234, (198): 237-238
Moore, [1875]
Descriptions of new Asiatic Lepidoptera Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4) : 565-579, pl. 66-67
Rambur, 1840
Faune entomologique de l'Andalusie. 1837-1840 (Vol. 2) Faune ent. Andal. 2 (1): pl. 14-15, 18 (1837), 2 (2): 1-16, pl. 1-4 (1838), 2 (3): 17-96, pl. 6-7, 9, 11 (1838), 2 (4): 97-176, pl. 5, 8, 10, 12, 17 (1839), 2 (5): 177-336 (1840)
[BMAT]; Tennent, 1996
The Butterflies of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia : 1-217
Trimen, 1891
On Butterflies collected in tropical South-Western Africa, by Mr. A. W. Eriksson Proc. zool. soc. Lond. 1891 : 59-107, pl. 8-9
[BRU]; Tuzov, Bogdanov, Devyatkin, Kaabak, Korolev, Murzin, Samodurov, Tarasov, 1997
Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories: Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Satyridae Butts. Russia adj. terr. 1
[BIR]; Wynter-Blyth, 1957
Butterflies of the Indian Region (1982 Reprint)

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