Axiocerses amanga

Axiocerses amanga

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Aphnaeinae
Genus: Axiocerses
Species: Axiocerses amanga
Subspecies: (3) [per Henning, 1996]
A. a. amanga – A. a. baumi – A. a. borealis

Name

Axiocerses amanga Westwood, 1881.

Type locality: Zimbabwe, "Near the Gwailo river".

Syntypes: OUMNH. ♂ images. ♀ images.

Zeritis amanga Westwood, 1881: 351.
Chrysorychia amanga (Westwood); Trimen & Bowker, 1887: 165, pl. 9, fig. 1.
Chrysorychia mendeche Grose-Smith, 1889: 135. Type locality: Mombasa, Kenya. Synonymy in Stempffer 1957: 221.
Axiocerses amanga amanga Westwood. Stempffer, 1967: 168; Henning & Henning, 1996: 37, figs 10,29,49; pl. 4: 37,38); Williams, 2008.

Grose-Smith, H., 1889c. Descriptions of twenty-four new species of butterflies captured by Mr. Last in the neighbourhood of Mombasa, East Coast of Africa, in the collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 3: 121–137. BHL. 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.

Stempffer, H., 1957. Les Lepidopteres de l’Afrique Noire Francaise. Initiations Africaines. Dakar 14 (Fasc. 3 Lycaenides): 1-228. Reference page.

Stempffer, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology. Supplement 10: 322pp, 1pl. BHL Reference page.

Trimen, R., 1887. In Trimen, R. & Bowker, J.H. South-African butterflies: a monograph of the extra-tropical species. Vol. 2: Erycinidae and Lycaenidae. vi + 242 pp, pls 7–9. London. (Text, plates)Reference page.

Westwood, J. O., 1881. Entomology. In: Oates, F. Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls. Entomology. [1st edition]: 331–365. London. BHLReference page.

Williams, M. C., 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Axiocerses Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.

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