Willema perexcellens

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: Heteropterinae
Genus: Willema
Species: Willema perexcellens
Subspecies: W. p. marunga – W. p. perexcellens

Name

Willema perexcellens (Butler, 1896).

Type locality: Nyasaland, Southern Congo.

Holotype: male, BMNH.

Synonymy

• Cyclopides perexcellens Butler, 1896: 161; 842, pl.42 fig.2.
• Metisella perexcellens perexcellens (Butler); Evans, 1937: 73. Bridges, 1994: VIII.174. Tanganyika, Great Craters.
• Willema perexcellens (Butler); Grishin in Cong et al., 2019: 20.

References

• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Butler, A.G., 1896. Descriptions of some new lepidoptera from Nyasaland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)18: 159–163. BHL. Reference page. 
• Butler, A. G., 1896. On two Collections of Lepidoptera made by Mr. R. Crawshay in Nyasaland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896: 817-850, pls 41,42. Reference page. 
• Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56. Online. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1–212. Reference page.