Tetrarhanis ilala

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: Liptenina
Genus: Tetrarhanis
Species: Tetrarhanis ilala
Subspecies: T. i. etoumbi – T. i. ilala

Name

Tetrarhanis ilala (Riley, 1929).

Type locality: Sudan/Uganda: “Kaia River, Sudan-Uganda frontier”.

Holotype: BMNH.

Synonymy

• Liptena diversa ilala Riley, 1929: 493.
• Liptena (Tetrarhanis) diversa ilala Riley; Stempffer, 1967: 57.
• Tetrarhanis ilala (Riley); d’Abrera, 2009: 660; Williams, 2007: Liptenina 44.

References

• D'Abrera, B., 2009. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, second edition, Part 3, Theclinae, Polyommatinae, Riodinidae. Hill House, Melbourne, London. 260pp. Reference page. 
• Eltringham, H., Poulton, E.B., Riley, N.D. & Talbot, G. 1929. African Rhopalocera: descriptions and notes. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 77: 475–504. 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.