Gegenes pumilio (Hoffmannsegg, 1804)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Hesperiidae → subfamily Hesperiinae → tribe Gegenini → genus Gegenes → species Gegenes pumilio

Species name(s)

Gegenes pumilio (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) = Papilio pumilio Hoffmannsegg, 1804 = aetna Boisduval, 1840 = Philoodus lefebvrii Rambur, 1842 = Genenes pumiliio = Papilio pygmaeus = Hesperia aetna Boisduval, 1840 = Pamphila gambica Mabille, 1878 = Philoodus lefebvrii Rambur, 1842 = Gegenes major Ragusa 1919 = Gegenes monochroa Rebel 1907 = Pamphila occulta Trimen, 1891 = Papilio pygmaeus Cyrillo, 1787 = Pamphila ursula Holland, 1896. [9, 10, 187]

Pigmy Skipper.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Greece, Spain, Italy, Crete, Malta, Sicily, France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Balearic Islands, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Northern Aegean Islands, Sicily, France (mainland), Croatia, Cycladic Islands, Yugoslavia . [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Gramineae. [28].

Subspecies of Gegenes pumilio

Gegenes pumilio gambica (Mabille, 1878). [9]
G. p. monochroa (Rebel, 1907). [9]
G. p. pumilio. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org