Abantis

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: Tagiadinae
Tribus: Tagiadini
Genus: Abantis
Subgenera: A. (Abantis) – A. (Caprona)

Name

Abantis Hopffer, 1855.

Type species: Abantis tettensis Hopffer, 1855: 643

Synonymy

Abantis Hopffer, 1855: 643; Hemming, 1967: 20.
Sapaea Plötz, 1879: 177, 179. TS. bicolor Trimen.
Abantiades Fairmaire, 1894: 395; Unnecessary replacement name.
Leucochitonea Wallengren, 1857 (synonymized by Zhang et al., 2022: 27)

Homonyms

For other taxa with the same name, see Abantis (disambiguation)

References

Belcastro, C & Oremans, P. 2016. Notes on the genus Abantis Hopffer, 1855 with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Pyrginae). Fragmenta Entomologica 48(1): 53–59. DOI: 10.4081/fe.2016.160 Reference page.
Berger, L.A. 1978. Abantis meneliki n. sp. (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Lambillionea 78(9–10): 67–69. Reference page.
Collins, S. & Larsen, T.B. 1994. The Abantis bismarcki-group of skipper butterflies with the description of Abantis bamptoni sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Entomologists' Record and Journal of Variation 106: 1–5. PDF. Reference page.
Hemming, A.F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1–509. 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.
Mendes, L.F. & Bivar de Sousa, A. 2009. The genus Abantis Hoppfer, 1855 in Angola and description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Shilap Revista de Lepidopterologia 37(147): 313–318. Reference page.
Miller, L.D. 1971. Descriptions of new species and notes on other Hesperiidae of Africa. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 2: 1–17. PDF. Reference page.
Plötz, C. 1879. Hesperiina Herr. Sch.. Entomologische Zeitung 40: 175-180. Reference page.
M.B. Usher, 1984 The Abantis species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) of western West Africa. Systematic Entomology 9: 351-356. Paid access. Reference page.
Wallengren, H.D.J. 1857. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera, in Terra Caffrorum annis 1838–1845 collecta a J.A. Wahlberg. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar (n.s.) 2(4): 55 pp. BHL Reference page.
Wallengren, H.D.J. 1858. Nova Genera Lepidopterorum. Översigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar 15: 75–84. Archive. Reference page.
Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.
Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2022. Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0921: 1–135. PDF. Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Paradise Skippers