Zestusa

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: Eudaminae
Tribus: Eudamini
Subtribus: Loboclina
Genus: Zestusa
Species (4): Z. dorus – Z. elwesi – Z. levona – Z. staudingeri

Name

Zestusa Lindsey, 1925

Type species: Plestia staudingeri Mabille, 1888.

Synonymy

• Plestia Mabille, 1888: 146 (preocc. Plestia Stål, [1870] [Hemiptera]).
  • Type species: Plestia staudingeri Mabille, 1888.
• Zestusa Lindsey, 1925: 106 (repl. Plestia Mabille, 1888); Hemming, 1967ː 466.

References

Primary references

• 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. 
• Lindsey, A.W. 1925. The Types of Hesperioid Genera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 18(1): 75-106. PDF DOI: 10.1093/aesa/18.1.75 Reference page. 
• Mabille, P. 1888. Description de Lépidoptéres (Hespérides) nouveaux. Le Naturaliste (10)2(31): 146–148, 169-171, 180-181. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Grishin, N.V. 2019. Expanded phenotypic diagnoses for 24 recently named new taxa of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). The Taxonomic Report 8(1): 1–15. PDF. 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. 
• Li, W., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Zhang, J., Hallwachs, W., Janzen, D.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns. PNAS 116(13): 6232–6237. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1821304116. Text. SI Appendix. Reference page. 
• Steinhauser, S.R. 1972. The genus Zestusa (Hesperiidae) in El Salvador with description of a new species. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 26(3): 127–132. PDF. Reference page.