Taxonavigation

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Aphnaeinae
Genera: (17)
Aloeides – Aphnaeus – Argyraspodes – Axiocerses – Cesa – Chloroselas – Chrysoritis – Cigaritis – Crudaria – Erikssonia – Lipaphnaeus – Phasis – Pseudaletis – Trimenia – Tylopaedia – Vansomerenia – Zeritis

References

• Boyle, J.H., Kaliszewska, Z.A., Espeland, M., Suderman, T.R., Fleming, J., Heath, A. & Pierce, N.E. 2014 (Online) 2015 (Print). Phylogeny of the Aphnaeinae: myrmecophilous African butterflies with carnivorous and herbivorous life histories. Systematic entomology 40(1): 169–182. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12098 . Reference page. 

• Eliot, J.N. 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology 28(6): 371-505. Reference page. 

• Espeland, M., Breinholt, J.W., Willmott, K.R., Warren, A.D., Vila, R., Toussaint, E.F.A., Maunsell, S.C., Aduse-Poku, K., Talavera, G., Eastwood, R., Jarzyna, M.A., Guralnick, R., Lohman, D.J., Pierce, N.E. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies. Current Biology 28(5): 770–778. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.061 Reference page. 

• Heath, A. 1997. A review of African genera of the tribe Aphnaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Metamorphosis. Occasional supplement (2). Full publication, with link to PDF. Reference page. 

• Henning, G. A. & Henning, S. F., 1996. A review of the genus Axiocerses Hübner (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with descriptions of nine new species and three new subspecies. Metamorphosis: Occasional Supplement 1, 48pp. (PDF) Reference page. 

• Tite, G.E. & Dickson, C.G.C. 1975. The genus Aloeides and allied genera (Lepidoptera:Lycaenidae). Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Entomology). 29 (5): 225–280, 5 pls, 32 text figs. text, plates. Reference page. 

Links

• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page. . Consulted 26.iv.2009.

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