Anthene hobleyi hobleyi

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

Anthene hobleyi hobleyi (Neave, 1904).

Type locality: Kenya, Nandi foothills, c. 8 m. NE of Mohuroni Stn.

Lectotype: OUMNH. male ♂. 1903. leg. C.W. Hobley.

Lycaenesthes hobleyi Neave, 1904: 339; Bethune-Baker, 1910: 24, pl. 1, fig. 9, pl. 6, fig. 10 (genitalia).
Lycaenesthes elgonensis Aurivillius, 1925: 210. Synonymy in Libert, 2010.
Anthene hobleyi elgonensis (Aurivillius); Stempffer, 1967: 191.
Anthene hobleyi (Neave); Stempffer, 1967: 191; Libert, 2010: 86.

Aurivillius, P.O.C., 1925. Om F. Bryks samlingar i Ost-Afrika. Entomologisk Tidskrift, 46: 206–212. Reference page.
Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1910. A revision of the African species of the Lycaenesthes group of the Lycaenidae. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 43: 1–84, pls. 1-13. BHL Reference page.
Libert, M. 2010. Révision des Anthene africains (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). ABRI Lambillionea 1–420. Reference page.
Neave, S.A., 1904. On a large collection of rhopalocera from the shores of the Victoria Nyanza. Novitates Zoologicae 11: 323–363, pl. 1. text, plate. 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.