Pyrgus argina Plötz, 1884

Pyrgus argina Plötz, 1884 View in CoL

Plötz (1884) subsequently described Pyrgus Argina ( Fig. 10):

An approximate translation: “Upperside black-brown. Forewings only with the typical [for Pyrgus ] white spots: the one in the discal cell is split, the one in Cell 1 is divided and grey, in Cell 5 a horizontal streak. Hindwings with five gray dots in the arc past the middle. Underside grey with brown veins: Forewings with the white spots as above, on the posterior half brown, hindwings with eight white dots in the ¾ circle and one in the middle.” The description is rather general and could apply to any population of the hegon complex. TL is erroneously given as “Brisbane”. Genomic analysis of a specimen collected in 1887, shortly after the description of P. argina and resembling a drawing of P. argina (see p. 21) revealed it to be A. hegon by the Z chromosome.