Pilodeudorix leonina

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: Theclinae
Tribe: Deudorigini
Genus: Pilodeudorix
Species: Pilodeudorix leonina
Subspecies: (3) per Williams, 2007.
P. l. dimitris – P. l. indentata – P. l. leonina

Pilodeudorix leonina (Bethune-Baker, 1904).

Type locality: Sierra Leone: “in the near hinterland of Sierra Leone”.

Holotype: BMNH. male ♂.

Deudorix leonina Bethune-Baker, 1904: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27733958 231].
Deudorix (Hypokopelates) leonina (Bethune-Baker); Fox et al, 1965: 336.
Hypokopelates leonina (Bethune-Baker); Stempffer, 1967: 104.
Pilodeudorix leonina (Bethune-Baker). Libert, 2004; Williams, 2007: Deudoricina 10.

Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1904. On new species of Rhopalocera from Sierra Leone. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7)14: 222–233. BHL. Reference page.
Fox R.M., Lindsey A.W., Clench H.K. & Miller L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 19: 1–438. BHL. Reference page.
Libert, M., 2004. Révision des Deudorix africains (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Lambillionea: 1–200. 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.