Liptena eukrines

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Poritiinae
Tribus: Liptenini
Genus: Liptena
Species: Liptena eukrines

L. eukrines, male, from original description.

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

Liptena eukrines Druce, H.H., 1905.

Type locality: [Democratic Republic of Congo], not Zambia (see Cookson, 1954): “North-east Rhodesia”.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH.

Synonymy

• Liptena eukrines Druce, 1905: 253, pl.13, fig.7; Stempffer, 1967: 54; Williams, 2007: Liptenina 9.
• Liptena eukrines obsoleta [form] Dufrane, 1953: 49. [subspecies] Stempffer, 1967: 54; Democratic Republic of Congo: “Kamituga”. Synonymy in Williams, 2007.

References

• Cookson, H., 1954. Correction of locality name of new butterflies caught by H. Cookson in 1903, 1904, and 1905 and described by H. Druce. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 17: 265. Reference page. 
• Druce, H.H. 1905. Descriptions of some new species of diurnal Lepidoptera, collected by Mr. Harold Cookson in northern Rhodesia, in 1903 and 1904. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London [53(2)]: 251–262, pl. 13. text, plate. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1905.tb02453.x Reference page. 
• Dufrane, A., 1953. Lépidoptères du Kivu (5th Note). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique 89: 52 (41-57). 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. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.