Toxochitona gerda

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: Toxochitona
Species: Toxochitona gerda

Name

Toxochitona gerda Kirby, 1890.

Type locality: Cameroon: “Barombi”.

Holotype: ♀ Staudinger collection - ? destroyed.

Synonymy

• Durbania gerda Kirby, 1890: 265.
• Eresina gerda unicolor "var. (?ab)... ♂" Aurivillius, 1899: 283. Democratic Republic of Congo: “Kuilu-Fluss”. As subspecies in Stempffer, 1967; synonymy in Williams, 2007: Liptenina 149.
• Eresina bitjensis Bethune-Baker, 1926: 392. Cameroon: “Bitje, Cameroons”. Synonymy in Stempffer, 1967: 65.
• Toxochitona gerda Stempffer, 1967: 65; Williams, 2007: Liptenina 148.

References

• Aurivillius, C. [1899]. RHOPALOCERA ǼTHIOPICA; die Tagfalter des Ǽthiopischen Faunengebietes… 31(5): 1-561. Reference page. 
• Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1926. Descriptions of new species of Rhopalocera from the Ethiopian Region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9) 17: 384–402. Reference page. 
• Kirby, W.F. 1890. Descriptions of new species of African Lycaenidae chiefly from the collections of Dr. Staudinger and Mr. Henley Grose-Smith. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology (6)6: 261–274. BHL 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.