Spialia diomus

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 Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota 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: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Pyrginae
Tribus: Carcharodini
Subtribus: Carcharodina
Genus: Spialia
Subgenus: Platygnathia
Speciesː Spialia diomus
Subspeciesː S. d. diomus –S. d. ferax

Name

Spialia diomus Hopffer, 1855.

Type localityː Mozambique.

Typusː repository tbc.

Synonymy

★Pyrgus diomus Hopffer, 1855ː 643.
★Pyrgus machacoana Butler, 1899ː [ 426]. Kenya; HT♂ BMNH.
★Syrichtus ferax Wallengren, 1863ː [ 137]. Synonymy in Evans, 1937.
★Syrichtus lacreuzei Oberthür, 1912ː [ 117].
★Spialia diomus diomus (Hopffer); Kielland, 1990ː 235.

References

• Butler, A. G., 1899. On two small collections of butterflies made by Mr. Richard Crawshay during 1898 in British East Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899: 417–427, BHL. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History) 1–212. Reference page. 
• Hopffer, C., 1855. Lepidoptera Diurna. Berichte uber die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855: 639–643. Reference page. 
• Kielland, J., 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363, 68 pls.,179 figs. Reference page.