Genus Timoconia Strand, 1909

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• Timoconia Strand, 1909.

  Type species:

   Timoconia thielei Strand, 1909 by original designation.
• Signeta Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia: a monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera introducing a complete scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and illustrations of all the butterflies found in Australia, including a number now recorded for the first time. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 239 pp. 38 pls + 3 unnumbered colour pls. [Date published 25 July 1914] [198] [name introduced in a key to genera on p. 174, described on p. 198 fig. AN].

  Type species:

   Telesto flammeata Butler, 1882 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Toussaint, E.F.A., Braby, M.F., Müller, C.J., Petrie, E.A. and Kawahara, A.Y. 2022. Molecular phylogeny, systematics and generic classification of the butterfly subfamily Trapezitinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Hesperiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 1407–1421 [Date published August 2022]

Introduction

Toussaint et al. (2022) revised the higher classification of the Trapezitinae based on a robust molecular phylogeny which resulted in a number of nomenclatural changes concerning genera, species and subspecies. These nomenclatural changes include the reinstatement of the genus Timoconia Strand, 1909. Since Timoconia thielei Strand, 1909 (the type species of Timoconia) is a junior synonym of Hesperia peron Latreille, 1824, Timoconia Strand, 1909 is a valid and available name for the clade of four taxa (peron, melania, flammeata, tymbophora) and therefore becomes the senior synonym of Signeta Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 (type species: Telesto flammeata Butler, 1882) because it was published five years earlier.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Strand, E. 1909. Zwei neue afrikanische Hesperiiden. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift 3(33): 176-177

Toussaint, E.F.A., Braby, M.F., Müller, C.J., Petrie, E.A. and Kawahara, A.Y. 2022. Molecular phylogeny, systematics and generic classification of the butterfly subfamily Trapezitinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Hesperiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 1407–1421 [Date published August 2022]

History of changes