Aethiopana honorius

honorius, ♂, ♀, from Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera.

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: Epitolina
Genus: Aethiopana
Species: Aethiopana honorius
Subspecies: (2)
A. h. divisa – A. h. honorius

Name

Aethiopana honorius Fabricius, [1793].

Type locality: None given. Distribution: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda.

Types: tbc.

Synonymy

• Papilio honorius Fabricius, 1793: 151.
• Epitola teresa Hewitson, 1869: 86. Cameroon: “Cameroun”. Synonymy in Hewitson, [1869] Suppl.: 17, pl.1a, figs 3-5.
• Aethiopana honorius (Fabricius); Bethune-Baker, 1915: 191; Stempffer, 1967: 65; Williams, 2007: Liptenina 148; D’Abrera, 2009: 666.
• Epitola honorius coarctata (ab.) Hulstaert, 1924: 118. [Democratic Republic of Congo]: “Stanleyville à Ponthierville”.

References

• D'Abrera, B., 2009. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, second edition, Part 3, Theclinae, Polyommatinae, Riodinidae. Hill House, Melbourne, London. 260pp. Reference page. 
• Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1915. Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera from Africa and the East. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 16: 186–203. BHL. Reference page. 
• Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus III. Pars I. C. G. Proft, Hafniae, [vi] + 487 pp. BHL. Reference page. 
• Hewitson, W.C. 1863–1878. Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp, 107 pls. Text, plates. Reference page. 
• Hewitson, W.C., 1869. Description of a New Species of (Epitola) Lycaenidae. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 6(61-72): 86. BHL. Reference page. 
• Hulstaert, R.P.G. 1924. Lycaenidae nouveaux des collections du Musée du Congo Belge. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaine 12: 112–122, 173–194. 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.