Herila herilus

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 Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola 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: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Ceratrichiini
Genus: Herila
Species: Herila herilus

Name

Herila herilus (Hopffer, 1855)

Type locality: Mozambique.

Holotype: Unknown. female ♀. not traced.

Synonymy

• Pamphila herilus Hopffer, 1855: 643. (original combination)
• Pardaleodes herilus (Hopffer, 1855): Holland 1896: 76. Querimba, East Africa.
• Teniorhinus herilus (Hopffer, 1855): Evans 1937: 98; Kielland, 1990: 242, pl.60; Ackery et al., 1995: 97.
• Herila herilus (Hopffer, 1855): Larsen & Collins 2012: 58

References

• Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1–212. Reference page. 
• Holland, W.J. 1896. A Preliminary Revision and Synonymic Catalogue of the Hesperiidae of Africa and the adjacent Islands, with Descriptions of some apparently new Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896: 2–107, Pls I–V. Reference page. 
• Hopffer, C. 1855. Lepidoptera Diurna. Berichte über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855: 639–643. Reference page. 
• Kielland, J., 1990. Revisional notes on some species of the genius [genus] Neocoenyra (Lepidoptera Satyridae). Lambillionea 90(1): 30–36. Reference page. 
• Larsen, T.B. & Collins, S.C. 2012. Herila – a new genus to receive the Afrotropical skipper Teniorhinus herilus (Hopffer, 1855) [Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae. Entomologia Africana 17(2): 55–64. Reference page.