Pentila picena

Tingra picena from Rhopalocera Exotica.

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 picena
Subspecies: (3) per Williams, 2007.
P. p. catori – P. p. cydaria – P. p. picena

Name

Pentila picena Hewitson, 1874.

Type locality: Ghana: “between Mansu and the River Prah”.

Holotype: BMNH?

Synonymy

• Pentila picena Hewitson, 1874: 383; Williams, 2007: Pentilina 41.
• Tingra picena (Hewitson); Grose-Smith & Kirby, [1893]: 93, pl.21 fig.5.
• Pentila picena picena Hewitson; Stempffer & Bennett, 1961: 1177 (genit.); Stempffer, 1967: 19.

References

• Grose-Smith, H. & Kirby, W.F. 1887–1902. Rhopalocera Exotica - being Illustrations of New, Rare and Unfigured Species of Butterflies 3 Vols. Gurney & Jackson, London. Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3. Reference page. 
• Hewitson, W.C. 1874. A list of the butterflies taken on the march to Coomassie by Lieutenant Alwin S. Bell, of the 2nd West-India Regiment, between Mansa and the River Prah, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)13: 380–383. BHL. Reference page. 
• Karsch, F., 1893. Die Insekten der Berglandschaft Adeli im Hinterlande von Togo (Westafrika). Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift 38: 1-266. 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.