Colotis annae hildebrandti Staudinger, 1885

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2014, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: family Pieridae, subfamily Pierinae, Journal of Natural History 48 (25 - 26), pp. 1543-1583 : 1552

[ Colotis annae hildebrandti Staudinger, 1885 ]

Larsen 1996: pl. 7, fig. 61 i. d’ Abrera 1997: 79 (6 figs).

The taxon C. hildebrandti , formerly regarded as a separate species, has recently been demoted by Nazari et al. (2011) as a subspecies of C. annae (Wallengren, 1857) .

This taxon is not mentioned by Kielland (1990, p.58) from the northern highlands. Ackery et al. (1995) state that hildebrandti occurs in “Dry Acacia woodland in northern Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and central Kenya ”, to which can be added Uganda ( Talbot 1939, p.222) and southern Kenya – and there is a pair of this distinctive species from Taveta in the OUMNH. This probably represents the material recorded from Taveta by Rogers (1913, p.99) using the synonym Teracolus callidia Grose-Smith, 1886 . Based on these Taveta records, this butterfly could well be a member of the lower slopes fauna, but it is not formally included here. This is probably the butterfly recorded by Aurivillius (1910a, p.11) as Teracolus annae Wallengren from the “Massaisteppe”, below Moshi.