Examination of the Status of Phyciodes tharos distincta Bauer, 1975, Confirming It as a Valid Subspecies

Authors

Harry Pavulaan, International Lepidoptera SurveyFollow

Date of this Version

10-15-2023

Document Type

Article

Citation

The Taxonomic Report (2023) 11(4)

Comments

Copyright 2023, the International Lepidoptera Survey. Open access material

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-SA-NC 4.0 International)

Abstract

The subspecific status of Phyciodes tharos distincta is reexamined. A specimen series from southern Arizona reveals that distincta shows a distinct, unique phenotype dissimilar from eastern North American nominotypical P. t. tharos. Subspecies distincta occupies a very limited range in extreme southeastern California, southern Arizona, and northwestern Mexico. A lectotype is designated.