Anthene lunulata grosei ( Aurivillius, 1899 )

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 : 25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068058

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFF5-FFFB-FF0E-FC52FC6EFAAA

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scientific name

Anthene lunulata grosei ( Aurivillius, 1899 )
status

 

75. Anthene lunulata grosei ( Aurivillius, 1899)

WL: 15mm. The species is known from the Guinean savanna and the present subspecies occurs from Senegal to Nigeria. The nominate A. l. lunulata occurs in most of sub-Saharan Africa, apparently limited by the Zambezi river basin (Larsen, 2005). The host-plants are Fabaceae and Combretaceae . A. lunulata was previously reported from the country as monotypic (Mendes et al. 2008).

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, not frequent (JB) . Gabú: Beli , 03- 05.07.2009, 2♂ (BS 28933, 29225) . Quinara: Buba Tombo ( PNLC), 16.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 28934).

Previous references. Regions: Quinara, Tombali. Authors: Mendes et al. (2008), Libert (2010).

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lycaenidae

Genus

Anthene

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