Vanessa dimorphica

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: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Nymphalinae
Tribus: Nymphalini
Genus: Vanessa
Species: Vanessa dimorphica
Subspecies: V. d. aethiopica – V. d. comoroica – V. d. dimorphica – V. d. mortoni – V. d. upembana

Name

Vanessa dimorphica (Howarth, 1966).

Type locality: Uganda, Ruwenzori range, Namwamba Valley, 6,500 ft.

Holotype: BMNH. male ♂. XII.1934–I.1935. leg. T.H.E. Jackson.

Synonymy

• Antanartia dimorphica Howarth, 1966: 33, pl. 4, f. 28–33.
• Vanessa dimorphica (Howarth); Wahlberg & Rubinoff, 2011: 366.

References

Primary references

• Howarth, T.G. 1966. Revisional notes on the genus Antanartia (Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 18: 21–43, pl. 1–5. Online. Reference page. 
• Wahlberg, N. & Rubinoff, D. 2011. Vagility across Vanessa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): mobility in butterfly species does not inhibit the formation and persistence of isolated sister taxa. Systematic Entomology 36(2): 362–370. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00566.x Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bouyer, T. 2010. Description d’une nouvelle sous-espèce d’Antanartia du Katanga (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Entomologia Africana 15(1): 19–21. Addenda corrigenda in 16(2): 48. ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C., 2008: Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea.