Liptena abraxas from original description.
Pentila abraxas in Illustrations of ... Exotic Butterflies

Taxonavigation

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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: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Poritiinae
Tribus: Liptenini
Subtribus: Pentilina
Genus: Pentila
Species: Pentila abraxas

Name

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Pentila abraxas (Westwood, [1851]).

Type locality: Sierra Leone, (see Larsen, 2005), not Ghana.

Holotype: BMNH?

Synonymy

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  • Liptena abraxas Westwood, [1851]: pl. 77, fig.5; [1852]: 504.
  • Pentila abraxas "[var.]" (Westwood); Hewitson, [1873]: txt, plate; Aurivillius, 1895: 196.
  • Pentila tripunctata Aurivillius, 1895: 197. Synonymy in Stempffer, 1967: 17.
  • Pentila abraxas abraxas (Westwood); Stempffer & Bennett, 1961: 1181 (genit.); Stempffer, 1967: 17; Williams, 2007: Pentilina 23.

References

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