Lachnocnema laches

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

Lachnocnema laches (Fabricius, 1793).

Type locality: [West Africa]: “In America”. [False locality.]

Lectotype: MNHN. female ♀. "[Burundi]: Usumbura (700 m), Urundi, 28.viii.1961 (M. Fontaine)"; designated by Libert, 1996.

Hesperia laches Fabricius, 1793: 317.
=Lachnocnema bibulus (Fabricius); Ackery et al., 1995: 542.
Lachnocnema laches (Fabricius); Libert, 1996; D'Abrera, 2009: 690; Williams, consulted 19.iii.2015.

D'Abrera, B., 2009. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, second edition, Part 3, Theclinae, Polyommatinae, Riodinidae. Hill House, Melbourne, London. 260pp. Reference page.
Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page.
Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus III. Pars I. C. G. Proft, Hafniae, [vi] + 487 pp. BHL. Reference page.
Libert, M., 1996. Contribution à l’étude des Lycaenidae africains : Révision du genre Lachnocnema Trimen. (Part 1) Lambillionea 96 (1): 185–202; (Part 2) Lambillionea 96 (2): 367–386; (Part 3) Lambillionea 96 (3): 479–500. Reference page.

Williams, M. C., 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Lachnocnema Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.