Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Miletinae
Tribus: Lachnocnemini
Genus: Lachnocnema
Species (alphabetic): L. abyssinica – L. albimacula – L. angolanus – L. bamptoni – L. bibulus – L. brimoides – L. brunea – L. congoensis – L. disrupta – L. divergens – L. dohertyi – L. ducarmei – L. durbani – L. emperamus – L. exiguus – L. inexpectata – L. intermedia – L. jacksoni – L. jolyana – L. katangae – L. kiellandi – L. laches – L. luna – L. magna – L. nigrocellularis – L. obscura – L. overlaeti – L. pseudobibulus – L. regularis – L. reutlingeri – L. riftensis – L. sosia – L. tanzanensis – L. triangularis – L. unicolor – L. vuattouxi
Name
Lachnocnema Trimen, 1887: 233.
Type species: Hesperia bibulus Fabricius, 1793: 307, by subsequent designation of Hemming, 1960.
Sub-Generic Groups
Species Groups sensu Libert, 1996:
abyssinica Group
L. abyssinica – L. angolanus – L. ducarmei – L. triangularis
bibulus Group
L. bibulus – L. kiellandi – L. laches – L. pseudobibulus – L. riftensis – L. sosia
durbani Group
emperamus Group
L. bamptoni – L. brimoides – L. divergens – L. dohertyi – L. emperamus – L. katangae – L. obscura – L. overlaeti – L. regularis – L. vuattouxi
exiguus Group
jacksoni Group
reutlingeri Group
L. albimacula – L. brunea – L. jolyana – L. luna – L. magna – L. nigrocellularis – L. reutlingeri
Synonymy
- Lachnocnemenea Sharp, [1888], in Zoological Record 24: 224 (incorrect subsequent spelling).
References
- Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Secundun classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus III. Pars I. C. G. Proft, Hafniae, [vi] + 487 pp. BHL. Reference page.
- Hemming, A. F., 1960. Principles of selection of type species: selection of type species for seven genera of the family Lycaenidae. Annotationes lepidopterologicae (Part 1): 7–11. Reference page.
- Libert, M. 1996. Contribution a l'etude des Lycaenidae africains. Revision du genre Lachnocnema Trimen, (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). Lambillionea 96 (1) (Tome II): 185–202.
- Libert, M. 1996. Contribution a l'etude des Lycaenidae africains: revision du genre Lachnocnema Trimen, deuxieme partie (1). (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). Lambillionea 96 (2) (Tome II): 367–386.
- Libert, M. 1996. Contribution a l'etude des Lycaenidae africains: revision du genre Lachnocnema Trimen, troisieme partie. (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). Lambillionea 96 (3) (Tome I): 479–500.
- 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.
Links
- Type images: RMCA.
- Williams, M. C., 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Lachnocnema Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.