Thestor

Taxonavigation
editTaxonavigation: Papilionoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Miletinae
Tribus: Lachnocnemini
Genus: Thestor
Species: T. barbatus – T. basutus – T. brachycerus – T. braunsi – T. calviniae – T. camdeboo – T. claasensi – T. coetzeri – T. compassbergae – T. dicksoni – T. dryburghi – T. holmesi – T. kaplani – T. montanus – T. murrayi – T. overbergensis – T. penningtoni – T. petra – T. pictus – T. pringlei – T. protumnus – T. rileyi – T. rooibergensis – T. rossouwi – T. stepheni – T. strutti – T. vansoni – T. yildizae
Name
editThestor Hubner, 1819: 73; Hemming, 1967: 440; Stempffer, 1967:182.
Type Species: Papilio petalus Cramer, designated by Scudder, 1875: 281.
Synonymy
edit- Arrugia Wallengren, 1872, TS Papilio protumnus Linnaeus, 1764: 340, designated by Röber, 1892: 277.
Sub-Generic Groups
editSpecies Groups sensu Heath & Pringle, 2004.
basutus Species Group
editT. basutus – T. dryburghi – T. protumnus
brachycerus Species Group
editT. barbatus – T. brachycerus – T. claasensi – T. holmesi – T. overbergensis – T. penningtoni – T. petra – T. rileyi – T. stepheni – T. yildizae
braunsi Species Group
editT. braunsi – T. calviniae – T. dicksoni – T. montanus – T. pictus – T. rooibergensis – T. strutti – T. vansoni
compassbergi Species Group
editT. camdeboo – T. compassbergae – T. kaplani – T. pringlei
murrayi Species Group
editrossouwi Species Group
editReferences
edit- Bridges, C.A. 1988. Catalogue of Lycaenidae & Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. Reference page.
- Heath, A., & Pringle, E.L., 2004. A review of the southern African genus Thestor Hübner (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Miletinae). Metamorphosis 15(3): 91–151. pdf. Reference page.
- Hemming, A.F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1–509. Reference page.
- Hübner, J. 1816–1826. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg. Papilionoidea. BHL Reference page.
- Pringle, E.L. & Heath, A. 2019. A new species of Thestor Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Miletinae) from the Clanwilliam region of the Western Cape, South Africa. Metamorphosis 30: 51–54. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
- Röber, J., 1892. In Staudinger, O. & Schatz, E., Exot. Schmett. 2. Die Familien und Gattungen der Tagfalter (6), 284pp., 50 pls. Bayern, Fürth. Reference page.
- Scudder, S.H. 1875. Historical sketch of the generic names proposed for butterflies. Proc. Amer. Soc. Arts Sci. Boston 10: 91–293.Reference page.
- Stempffer, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology. Supplement 10: 322pp, Figs. 229-348. Reference page.
Links
edit- Williams, M. C., 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. Thestor Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.