Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820

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Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820

Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820 , Annals of Nature, 1: 9. Type material not extant, from Platops rugulosa Newport, 1844 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, 13: 267. Male HT (BMNH) from an unspecified locality. Synonymized with tesselatum by Chamberlin & Hoffman (1958). Hoffman & Crabill, 1953, Florida Entomol., 36 (2): 81. Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1958, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 212: 110. Shelley, 1984, Can. J. Zool., 62: 982, figs 1–3. Hoffman, 1999, Checklist Millip. North & Middle Am.: 197. McAllister & Shelley, 2003, Proc. Oklahoma Acad. Sci., 83: 84.

Lysiopetalum rugulosum: Gervais, 1847 , Hist. Nat. Ins. Apt., 4: 132. Pocock, 1893, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 11: 248.

Reasia spinosa Sager, 1856 , Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 8: 109. Type material not known to exist, from an unspecified locality, vicinity of Detroit, Michigan suggested as type locality by Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1958. Synonymy proposed by Wood (1865).

Lysiopetalum lactarium: Packard, 1883 , Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., 21: 183. Packard, 1883, Am. Natur., 17: 555.

Lysiopetalum eudasym McNeill, 1887 , Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. Wash., 10: 330. HT (USNM) from Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. Synonymized with lactarium by Williams & Hefner (1928); with tesselatum by Chamberlin & Hoffman (1958).

Lisiopetalum [sic!] eudasum [sic!] McNeill, 1887, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. Wash., 10: 324.

Lysiopetalum endasum: McNeill, 1888 , Bull. Brookville Soc. Nat. Hist., 3: 9.

Spirostrephon creolum Chamberlin, 1942 , Bull. Univ. Utah, Biol. Ser., 6, 32 (8): 9, figs 24–25. Male HT (USNM) from Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, USA. Synonymized by Shelley (1984). Chamberlin, 1947, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 99, 21. Causey, 1953, Am. Midl. Nat., 50: 155.

Abacion tesselatum creolum: Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1958 , Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 212: 110. Loomis, 1959, J. Wash. Acad. Sci., 49 (5): 161. Loomis, 1969, Florida Entomol., 52 (4): 245, fig. 1.

Range: Southcentral United States, western Pennsylvania to Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, southward to the Florida pan-

handle and Louisiana, also central Appalachians eastward to Virginia (cf. Hoffman 1999).