Alaena unimaculosa aurantiaca

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Poritiinae
Tribus: Liptenini
Subtribus: Pentilina
Genus: Alaena
Species: Alaena unimaculosa
Subspecies: Alaena unimaculosa aurantiaca

Alaena aurantiaca from original description.

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

Name

Alaena unimaculosa aurantiaca Butler, 1895.

Type locality: Tanzania: “Tabora, dans l’Ounyanyambé (Afrique orientale)”.

Holotype: BMNH.

Synonymy

• Alaena aurantiaca Butler, 1895: 262, pl.15, fig.4.
• =Alaena interposita hauttecoeuri Oberthur; Stempffer, 1967: 9.
• Alaena unimaculosa aurantiaca Butler; Williams, 2007: Pentilina 19

References

• Butler, A.G. 1895. On collections of lepidoptera from British Central Africa and Lake Tanganyika. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1895: 250–270, pls 15,16. BHL, plates. 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.