Chondrolepis

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: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Astictopterini
Genus: Chondrolepis
Species: C. cynthia – C. ducarmei – C. leggei – C. nero – C. niveicornis – C. obscurior – C. similis – C. telisignata – C. uluguru

Name

Chondrolepis Mabille, [1904].

Type species: Pamphila murga Mabille, 1890, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Chondrolepis Mabille, [1904]: 170; Hemming, 1967: 113; Kielland, 1990: 247.
• Chioneigia Heron, 1909: 172. Synonymy, implied, in Kielland, 1990.

References

• Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56. Online. Reference page. 
• Hemming, A.F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1–509. Reference page. 
• de Jong, R., 1986. Systematics, Phylogeny and Biogeography of the chiefly Afromontane genus Chondrolepis Mabille (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 231: 1–40, 51 figs. PDF. Reference page. 
• Kielland, J., 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363, 68 pls.,179 figs. Reference page. 
• Larsen, T.B. & Congdon, T.C.E., 2012. The genus Ampittia in Africa with the description of a new species (Hesperiinae; Aeromachini) and three new species in the genera Andronymus and Chondrolepis (Hesperiinae, incertae sedis) (Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). Zootaxa 3322: 049–062. Preview Reference page. 
• Mabille, P., 1890. Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire d’Assinie (Afrique occidentale) en juillet et aout 1886. Lepidopteres avec des notes sur quelques autres especes d’Afrique. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Ser. 6)10: 17–51, BHL. Reference page. 
• Mabille, P. 1903–1904. Genera Insectorum - Fam. Hesperiidae Fascicule 17: 210pp, 4 pls.; P. Wytsman, Brussels. Reference page.