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Quasimellana mexicana  (E. Bell, 1942)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 706662

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderLepidoptera  – butterflies, moths, papillons, papillons de nuit, Borboleta, Mariposa  
                                  SuperfamilyHesperioidea Latreille, 1809  
                                     FamilyHesperiidae Latreille, 1809 – Skippers  
                                        SubfamilyHesperiinae Latreille, 1809 – Grass-Skippers  
                                           TribeHesperiini Latreille, 1809  
                                              GenusQuasimellana Burns, 1994  
                                                 SpeciesQuasimellana mexicana (E. Bell, 1942)  
       

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  Source: Check List of the Lepidoptera of North America... MS, database (version 2003)  
  Acquired: 2005   
  Notes: Ongoing developmental version with contributions by Don Lafontaine, Jean-François Landry, Jim Troubridge, Paul Opler, Ron Hodges, John Brown, et al. Higher classification does not yet reflect recent and substantial changes that have been published   
  Reference for: Quasimellana mexicana   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Burns, John M.  
  Publication Date: 1994   
  Article/Chapter Title: Genitalia at the generic level: Atrytone restricted, Anatrytone resurrected, new genus Quasimellana - and yes! we have no Mellanas (Hesperiidae)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, vol. 48, no. 4   
  Page(s): 273-337   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0024-0966   
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Hodges, Ronald W., et al., eds.  
  Publication Date: 1983   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico   
  Page(s): xxiv + 284   
  Publisher: E.W. Classey Ltd. and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation   
  Publication Place: London, England   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-86096-016-1   
  Notes: Other contributing editors: Tatiana Dominick, Donald, R. Davis, Douglas C. Ferguson, John G. Franclemont, Eugene G. Munroe, and Jerry A. Powell   
  Reference for: Quasimellana mexicana   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Pelham, Jonathan P.  
  Publication Date: 2008   
  Article/Chapter Title: A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, vol. 40   
  Page(s): xiv + 658   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0022-4324   
  Notes: As noted in the Introduction, Pelham intentionally diverges from the Code's provisions on gender agreement (Articles 31 & 34), following original orthography instead   
  Reference for: Quasimellana mexicana   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Middle America  
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin: Mexico, Native  
 

 

    

 Comments
       
  Comment: Pelham (2008:429) notes that Quasimellana mexicana (Bell, 1942) is "Listed from our region [North America] by L. Miller and F. Brown (1981: 44) and Ferris (1989c), but no vouchers of this species are known from our area; see Bailowitz and Brock (1991) and Burns (1994b)"  
 

 

    

 
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