Pentila preussi

Pentila preussi in 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 preussi
Subspecies: (2) per Williams, 2007.
P. p. fayei – P. p. preussi

Name

Pentila preussi Staudinger, 1888.

Type locality: Sierra Leone: “Sierra Leone”.

Types: tbc.

Synonymy

• Pentila preussi Staudinger, 1888: 267.
• Tingra preussi (Staudinger); Grose-Smith & Kirby, [1891]: 63, pl.15 figs 10-12.
• Pseuderesia paucipunctata Kirby, 1890: 263. Cameroon: “Cameroons”. Synonymy in Stempffer, 1967: 19.
• Tingra paucipunctata (Kirby); Grose-Smith & Kirby, [1891]: 63, pl.15 figs 6,7. Misspelled paucipuncta in Stempffer, 1967.
• Tingra lunaris Weymer, 1892: 95. Sierra Leone. Synonymy in Stempffer, 1967: 19.
• Pentila preussi preussi (Staudinger); Stempffer & Bennett, 1961: 1171 (genit.); Stempffer, 1967: 19; Williams, 2007: Pentilina 42.

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. 
• Kirby, W.F. 1890. Descriptions of new species of African Lycaenidae chiefly from the collections of Dr. Staudinger and Mr. Henley Grose-Smith. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology (6)6: 261–274. BHL Reference page. 
• Staudinger, O., 1888, in Staudinger, O. & Schatz, E., 1884–1888. Exotische Schmetterlinge 1. Exotische Tagfalter (1) Beschreibungen. [6], 333 pp. (2) Abbildungen. [4] 100 pls. Fürth. text, plates. 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. 
• Weymer, G., 1892. Exotischer Lepidopteren VI. (Aus dem afrikanischen Faunengebiet). Entomologische Zeitung 53: 79-125. BHL. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.