Tingra picena from Rhopalocera Exotica.

Taxonavigation

edit
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

edit

Pentila picena Hewitson, 1874.

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

Holotype: BMNH?

Synonymy

edit
  • 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

edit