carcina, from Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera.

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: Poritiinae
Tribus: Liptenini
Subtribus: Epitolina
Genus: Stempfferia
Species: Stempfferia carcina

Name

Stempfferia carcina (Hewitson, 1873).

Type locality: Nigeria: “Old Calabar”.

Holotype: ♀ BMNH.

Synonymy

  • Epitola carcina Hewitson, 1873: 150; [1878] Suppl.1: 20, pl.1b figs 17, 18.
  • Epitola entebbeana Bethune-Baker, 1926: 392. [In part; see Cephetola cephena entebbeana]. Nigeria: “Oban”. Synonymy in Williams, 2007.
  • Epitola dunia Kirby, 1887: 443; Ackery, et al., 1995: 522. Cameroon: “Cameroons”. Synonymy in Libert, 1999.
  • Stempfferia carcina (Hewitson); Libert, 1999.
  • Stempfferia (Cercenia) carcina (Hewitson); Williams, 2007: Epitolina 26.

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. 
  • Hewitson, W. C., 1873. Descriptions of six new species of Epitola from the west coast of Africa. Entomologist’s monthly Magazine 10: 149–151. BHL. Reference page. 
  • Kirby, W. F., 1887. Descriptions of new species of Epitola from Cameroons & c. in the collection of Henley Grose-Smith. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 19: 441–445. BHL. Reference page. 
  • Libert, M., 1999. Révision des genres Epitola Westwood, Hypophytala Clench et Stempfferia Jackson, et description de trois nouveaux genres (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). A.B.R.I., Nairobi and Lambillionea, Tervuren, February, 1999, 219 pp. Reference page. 
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