Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Divisio: Eulepidoptera
Sectio: Ditrysia
Subsectio: Apoditrysia
Clade: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Leptotes
Species: Leptotes sanctithomae

Name

Leptotes sanctithomae (Sharpe, 1893).

Type locality: W. Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe ["St. Thomas Is."] St. Nicolau.

Holotype: not located.

Synonyms

  • Catochrysops sancti-thomae Sharpe, 1893: 556.
  • Syntarucus terrenus Joicey & Talbot, 1926: 224, TL: São Tomé and Príncipe, “Sao Thomé”, Holotype: not located; Stempffer, 1967: 221; Synonymy in Libert, 2011.
  • Freyeria sanctithomae (Sharpe); Ackery et al., 1995.
  • Chilades sanctithomae (Sharpe); Hesselbarth et al., 1995.
  • Leptotes terrenus (Joicey & Talbot); Williams, 2008, Polyommatini 1: 57.
  • Leptotes sanctithomae (Sharpe); Libert, 2011; Fric et al., 2019.

Note: Balint, 1999: 46 suggests that C. sanctithomae may be a junior subjective synonym of Chilades naidina, but has not made a formal synonymy.

References

  • Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R., Vane-Wright, R.I. 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London: i-xi, 1-803. ISBN 978-0-643-05561-2 Reference page. 
  • Hesselbarth, G., van Oorschot, H. & Wagener, S. 1995. Die Tagfalter der Türkei unter Berücksichtigung der angrenzenden Länder. Allgemeiner Teil, spezieller Teil. Band 1. Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae. Selbstverlag Sigbert Wagener, Hemdener Weg 19, D 46399 Bocholt, Germany: 1–754. Reference page. 
  • Libert, M. 2011. Note sur le genre Leptotes Scudder, 1876 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Lambillionea 111(1): 53–66. Reference page. 
  • Sharpe, E., 1902. Descriptions of three new butterflies from East Africa. Entomologist 35: 40-41. BHL. Reference page. 
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