Gesta horatius

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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: Erynnini
Subtribus: Erynnina
Genus: Gesta
Subgenus: Erynnides
Species: Gesta horatius

Gesta horatius Scudder & Burgess, 1870

Type locality: USA, "Massachusetts/New England", "Texas".

Typus: Syntype MCZ-15832

Nisoniades horatius Scudder & Burgess, 1870: 301, fig.13, genitalia.
Nisoniades virgilius Scudder & Burgess, 1870: 302, fig.14, genitalia.
- Type locality: USA “New England”
  - Typus: MCZ [?]
Nisoniades petronius Lintner, 1881: 70 (see also the older but unavailable “Nisoniades petronius” of Mead [1876]: 786).
- Type locality: USA “Indian River, Florida”
  - Typus: Syntype, NYSM
Erynnis horatius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870); Evans, [1953]: 211; Bridges, 1994: VIII.101 BHL, IX.25.
Erynnis (Erynnides) horatius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870); Lamas, 2004: 47.
Gesta horatius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870); Zhang et al., 2019: 6; Zhang et al., 2020: 35 (Implicit from inference).

Bridges, C.A. (1994). Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Urbana, Illinois: Bridges. BHL Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1951–55. A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidae in the British Museum. Pt.1 (1951): x+92pp, pls.1–9; Pt.2 (1952): v.+178pp, pls.10–25; Pt.3 (1953): v+246pp, pls.26–53; Pt.4 (1955): v+499pp, pls. 54–88. 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.
Lintner, J.A. 1881. On some species of Nisoniades. Papilio 1(5): 69–74. Reference page.
Scudder, S.H. & Burgess, E. 1870. On Asymmetry in the Appendages of Hexapod Insects, especially as illustrated in the Lepidopterous Genus Nisoniades. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 13ː 282-306, 1 pl. Reference page.
Zhang, J., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Opler, P.A. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Changes to North American butterfly names. The Taxonomic Report of The International Lepidoptera Survey 8(2): 1–12. PDF. Reference page.
Zhang, J., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Opler, P.A. & Grishin, N.V. 2020. Genomic evidence suggests further changes of butterfly names. The Taxonomic Report of The International Lepidoptera Survey 8(7): 1–41. PDF. Reference page.