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Species Poladryas arachne - Arachne Checkerspot - Hodges#4514

Unknown Butterfly, San Francisco Peaks - Poladryas arachne

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Butterflies and Skippers)

Family Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)

Subfamily Nymphalinae (Crescents, Checkerspots, Anglewings, etc.)

Tribe Melitaeini

Genus Poladryas (Checkerspots)

Species arachne (Arachne Checkerspot - Hodges#4514)

Hodges Number

4514

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Melitaea arachne W.H. Edwards 1869. Type locality: "Colorado" [restricted to vicinity of Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado” by F. Martin Brown (1966, Transactions of the American Entomological Society 92(3): 411).]

Melitaea monache Comstock 1918. Type locality: 8500-9000 ft. Monache Meadows, Tulare County, California

Melitaea nympha W.H. Edwards 1884. Type locality: Arizona

Melitaaea gilensis Holland 1930. Type locality: Arizona

Schoenis arachne (W.H. Edwards) Dyar 1903

Poladryas arachne (W.H. Edwards) F.M. Brown

Poladryas minuta arachne (W.H. Edwards)

Poladryas minuta gilensis (Holland)

Poladryas arachne expedita Austin 1998. Type locality: Spring Mtns., Clark County, Nevada

Poladryas minuta nympha (W.H. Edwards)

Poladryas arachne expedita (Austin) Pelham 2008

Poladryas arachne gilensis (Holland) Pelham 2008

Poladryas arachne monache (Comstock) Pelham 2008

Poladryas arachne nympha (W.H. Edwards) Pelham 2008

Explanation of Names

Currently treated by many authors as a species separate from P. minuta, but treated by others as a subspecies of [i]P. minuta. P. minuta & arachne have been shown to be interfertile when cross-bred by James Scott (1992).

Range

W. Nebraska & ne. Colorado to California and southward through w. New Mexico and Arizona into northern Mexico. Not known to occur with P. minuta, but comes close and may meet somewhere along eastern edge of range in Colorado, New Mexico, and/or Mexico.

Contributed by tom murray on 21 July, 2005 - 5:09pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, David Ferguson
Last updated 28 January, 2018 - 9:46pm

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