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Spalgis lemolea subsp. pilos Druce 1890
Description
37. Spalgis lemolea pilos Druce, 1890
WL: 15mm. S. lemolea is a forest species known from primary and secondary forests. It can also occur in towns on trees infested with scale insects (coccids and pseudococcids), on which its caterpillars prey. The present subspecies ranges from Senegal to Cameroon, and the nominate subspecies from there onward to Ethiopia and Mozambique.
Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, 2 specimens (JB). Bissau: In the capital, several specimens were observed in July 2009 flying around a mango tree strongly infested with scale-insects (BS).
Previous references. Regions: Bissau. Authors: D’Abrera (1980), Larsen (2005), Mendes et al. (2008). Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: F; CS: LC.
Notes
Published as part of 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), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Spalgis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Druce
- Species
- pilos
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Spalgis lemolea subsp. pilos Druce, 1890 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Druce, H. H. (1890) Descriptions of twelve new species of Lycaenidae from West Africa and one from the Solomon Islands in the collection of Herbert Druce. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5, 24 - 31. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939009460774