Pentila cloetensi

Pentila cloetensi ♂.

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: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Poritiinae
Tribus: Liptenini
Subtribus: Pentilina
Genus: Pentila
Species: Pentila cloetensi
Subspecies: (6) per Williams, 2007.
P. c. albida – P. c. aspasia – P. c. catauga – P. c. cloetensi – P. c. latefasciata – P. c. lucayensis

Name

Pentila cloetensi Aurivillius, 1897.

Type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo: “Congogebiet: Beni Bendi am Sankuru Fluss”.

Holotype: ♂ RMCA, i.1895 (L. Cloetens); images.

Synonymy

• Pentila cloetensi Aurivillius, 1897: 214, Fig.3; Holland, 1920: 216, pl.12 fig.9.
• Pentila cloetensi cloetensi Aurivillius; Stempffer & Bennett, 1961: 1188 [genit.]; Stempffer, 1967: 17; Williams, 2007: Pentilina 28.

References

• Aurivillius, C. 1897. Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika. 3. Entomologisk tidskrift 18: 213–222. BHL Reference page. 
• Druce, H.H. 1910. Descriptions of new Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae from tropical West Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910: 356–378, 3 Plates. Reference page. 
• Holland, W.J. 1920. Lepidoptera of the Congo; Being a Systematic List of the Butterflies and Moths Collected by The American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, Together With Descriptions of Some Hitherto Undescribed Species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 43(6): 109-369, Pls.VI-XIV. Reference page. 
• Stempffer, H. & Bennett, N.H. 1961. Revision du genre Pentila Westwood (Lep. Lycaenidae). Bulletin de l’Institut Francais d’Afrique Noire (A) 23: 1098–1211. 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.