Pentila tropicalis chyulu

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 tropicalis
Subspecies: Pentila tropicalis chyulu

Name

Pentila tropicalis chyulu van Someren, 1887.

Type locality: Kenya: “Chyulu Range”.

Types: tbc.

Synonymy

• Pentila amenaida chyulu van Someren, 1939: 145.
• Pentila tropicalis chyulu (van Someren); Stempffer & Bennett, 1961: 1110 (genit.); Stempffer, 1967: 20; Williams, 2007: Pentilina 50.

References

• 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. 
• van Someren, V.G.L. 1939. New and Little-Known Lepidoptera from Kenya. Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 14:174 (172–180). Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.