Claudio Belcastro

Claudio Belcastro, entomologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Belcastro, C., 1986. A Preliminary List of the Hesperiidae, (Lepidoptera) from Sierra Leone with description of a new species. Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura Quaderno, 260: 165-194, 1 pl. Reference page.
Belcastro, C., 1986. A New Euriphene, (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) from Loma Mountains Sierra Leone with description of a new species. Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura Quaderno, 260: 195-196. Reference page.

Belcastro, C., 1990. New (Lepidoptera) from West Africa. Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura Quaderno, 265: 69-78, 2 pls. Reference page.
Belcastro, B., 1990. Nymphalidae of Sierra Leone. Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura Quaderno, 265: 79-100, 3 pls. Reference page.

Belcastro, C. & Larsen, T.B. 1996. The Pteroteinon caenira-complex of African skippers, with the description of a new species (P. concaenira) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Lambillionea 96(4): 616–622. Reference page.

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.

Sáfián, S., Belcastro, C. & Tropek, R. 2019. Two new species in the genus Andronymus Holland, 1896 (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). Zootaxa 4624(1): 108–120. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.1.7. Reference page.
Sáfián, S., Collins, S.C., Belcastro, C., Brattström, O. & Tropek, R. 2019. Description of previously unknown females of three Euriphene Boisduval, 1847 species and the unknown male of Bebearia inepta Hecq, 2001 from Western Africa, with notes on their taxonomy, bionomy and distribution (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Limenitidinae). Shilap revista de Lepidopterologia 47(188): 581–591. Reference page.

Safian, S., Belcastro, C., Boireau, P. & Collins, S. 2020. New Taxa of Skipper Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) from Tropical Africa. Metamorphosis 31(1): 56–71. ResearchGate Reference page.
Safian, S., Pyrcz, T.W., Boireau, P. & Belcastro, C. 2020a. A new subspecies of Telchinia Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) from West Africa. Metamorphosis 31(1): 45–48. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Sáfián, S., Collins, S.C., Warren-Gash, H. & Balcastro, C. 2021. Description of five new species of Epitola sensu lato (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Poritiinae) from West and Central Africa. Zootaxa 4981(3): 554–576. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.3.7. . Reference page.