Stempfferia moyambina

moyambina ♀ Neallotype in BMNH.

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: Epitolina
Genus: Stempfferia
Species: Stempfferia moyambina

Name

Stempfferia moyambina (Bethune-Baker, 1903).

Type locality: Sierra Leone: “Sierra Leone [Moyamba (Jackson, 1962)]”.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH; Neallotype ♀ BMNH, Nigeria, Lagos, Oshodi, iv.1955 (Jackson).

Synonymy

• Epitola moyambina Bethune-Baker, 1903: 330; Jackson, 1962: 130, Neallotype ♀ pls 1,2 figs 5,14; Stempffer, 1967: 87.
• Stempfferia moyambina (Bethune-Baker); Libert, 1999.
• Stempfferia (Cercinia) moyambina (Bethune-Baker); Williams, 2007: Epitolina 36.

References

• Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1903. On new species of Lycaenidae from West Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 12: 324–334. BHL. Reference page. 
• Jackson, T.H.E. 1962. Notes on the Epitolinae with descriptions of a new genus and a new species and subspecies. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 12: 125–163. BHL. Reference page. 
• Larsen, T.B. 2005. Butterflies of West Africa. 2 vols, Apollo Books, Svendborg, Denmark: 1–595, 1–270. Reference page. 
• Libert, M. 1999. Révision des genres Epitola Westwood, Hypophytala Clench et Stempfferia Jackson, et description de trois nouveaux genres (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). A.B.R.I., Nairobi and Lambillionea, Tervuren, February, 1999, 219 pp. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.