Triskelionia compacta

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: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Tagiadinae
Tribus: Tagiadini
Genus: Triskelionia
Species: Triskelionia compacta

Name

Triskelionia compacta (W.H. Evans, 1951)

Type locality: Tanzania, Mikindani (Tanganyika).

Holotype: male ♂. 1.-v.1897. Reimer, BMNH.

Synonyms

• Sarangesa tricerata compacta Evans, 1951ː 1269; Ackery, et al., 1995: 73.
• Triskelionia compacta (Evans); Larsen & Congdon, 2011: 53.

References

• Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1951. Revisional notes on African Hesperiidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 4: 1268–1272, 4 figs. web purchase Reference page. 
• Larsen, T.B. & Congdon, T.C.E. 2011. Triskelionia, a new African genus of the Celaenorrhinini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) and the promotion of T. compacta to species-status. Zootaxa 2931: 53–58. PDF. Reference page.