Astictopterus abjecta ( Snellen, 1872 )

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 54

*214. Astictopterus abjecta ( Snellen, 1872)

WL: 16mm. This is a savanna species that may also colonize degraded forest. It was erroneously assigned as Semalea pulvina by Mendes et al. (2007), but is now corrected; both genus and species are thus assigned for the first time to Guinea-Bissau. All of the reported specimens were obtained in the PNLC. S. pulvina remains, however, part of the Guinea-Bissau fauna—see ahead . A. abjecta occurs across West Africa from Senegal to Nigeria, also extending to Congo, DRC, Angola and Zambia ( Ackery et al. 1995, Larsen, 2005). Host-plants are unknown.

Studied material. Cacheu: Banhinda ( PNTC), 25.07.2009, 1♀ (BS 29584).

Previous references. Regions: Gabú, Quinara (as Semalea pulvina ). Authors: Mendes et al. 2007.

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: I.