Mimacraea skoptoles

Mimacraea skoptoles from original description.

Taxonavigation

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: Poritiinae
Tribus: Liptenini
Subtribus: Mimacraeina
Genus: Mimacraea
Species: Mimacraea skoptoles

Name

Mimacraea skoptoles Druce, 1907.

Type locality: “Nigeria”. [False locality; Carcasson (1981), Libert (2000) and Larsen (2005)]
Distribution: Tanzania (Kigoma, Mpanda), Democratic Republic of Congo (Shaba), Zambia.

Holotype: ♀ BMNH, ex. coll. Druce.

Synonymy

Mimacraea skoptoles Druce, 1907: 78, pl.2 fig.3; Stempffer, 1967: 31; Williams, 2007: Mimacraeina 18.
Mimacraea krausei obsolescens (ab.) Hawker-Smith, 1926: 238. Synonymized by Libert, 2000: 47. Holotype: RMCA images.

References

Druce, H.H. 1907. Descriptions of some new butterflies from tropical Africa. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1907: 77–82. BHL. Reference page.

Larsen, T.B., 2005. Butterflies of West Africa. 2 vols, Apollo Books, Svendborg, Denmark: 1–595, 1-270. Reference page.

Libert, M., 2000. Révision du genre Mimacraea Butler, avec description de quatre nouvelles espèces et deux nouvelles sous-espèces (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), ABRI, Lambillionea, 1-72. 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.

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

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