Acleros mackenii

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: Astictopterini
Genus: Acleros
Speciesː Acleros mackenii

Name

Acleros mackenii Trimen, 1868.

Type localityː South Africa; "d'Urban".

Typusː ♂ BMNH

Synonymy

♦ Pamphila (?) mackenii Trimen, 1868: 95, Pl.6 fig.8.
♦ Apaustus olaus Plötz, 1884ː 156. ♂ "Loango". Synonymy in Evans, 1937ː 118.
♦ Acleros instabilis Mabille, 1889ː clxviii. "Zanguebar" - Zanzibar.
♦ Acleros nyassicola Strand, 1920ː 153. Nyasaland.
♦ Acleros mackeni (sic) (Trimen); Aurivillius, in Seitz, [1924]ː 555, Pl.77 Row A.
♦ Acleros mackenii mackenii (Trimen); Evans, 1937ː 118; Peters, 1952: 127; Kielland, 1990: 244, Pl.61; Bridges, 1994ː VIII.131, IX.1; Ackery, et al., 1995ː 106.

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. 
• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL 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. 
• Hsu, Y.-F., Chiba, H., Yang, Y.C., Tsukiyama, H., Yang, P.-S. & Wang, S.-M. 2006. A taxonomic review of the Taiwanese Skippers described by Shonen Matsumura (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Zoological Studies 45(3): 322–338. PDF Reference page. 
• Kielland, J., 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363, 68 pls.,179 figs. Reference page. 
• Mabille, P., 1889. Description de Quelques Hesperides Nouveaux. Annales de la Société entomologique de France 6(9): LXXXIV-LXXXV, XCI-XCIII, CLV-CLVI, CLXVII-CLXIX. Reference page. 
• Peters, W., 1952. A provisional check-list of the butterflies of the Ethiopian region. 210pp. E.W. Classey. Reference page. 
• Seitz, A. 1908–1927. Die afrikanischen Tagfalter. Die Grossschmetterlinge der Erde 13: 1–613, pls. 1–80. Reference page. 
• Strand, E., 1920. Systematische-faunistiche Beitrage zur Kenntnis exotischer Heterocera und Grypocera. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A 86(6-8): 113-171. Reference page. 
• Trimen, R., 1868. On some undescribed species of South African butterflies including a new genus of Lycaenidae. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 16(1): 69–96. BHL. Reference page. 

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