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Pelopidas thrax Hubner 1821
Description
236. Pelopidas thrax (Hübner, 1821)
WL: 19mm. This is another ubiquitous Afrotropical skipper that also occurs in part of the Palearctic and Oriental Regions. it was described from Syria. The caterpillars feed on various Poaceae.
Studied material. Cacheu: Caió (JB).
Previous references. Regions: Biombo, Bolama, Cacheu. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Bacelar (1949), Mendes et al. (2007).
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 page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Pelopidas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Hubner
- Species
- thrax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pelopidas thrax Hubner, 1821 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Aurivillius, C. (1910) Schmetterlinge gesammelt in Westafrika von Leonardo Fea in dem Jahren 1897 - 1902. Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale da Genova, 44, 502 - 506.
- Bacelar, A. (1949) Macrolepidoptera (Rhopalocera) da Guine Portuguesa. Anais da Junta de Investigacoes Coloniais (Entomologia), 4, 72 - 104.
- Mendes, L. F., Bivar-de-Sousa, A. & Consciencia, S. (2007) Novos dados sobre os lepidopteros diurnos (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea e Papilionoidea) da Guine-Bissau. I - Introducao e Hesperiidae. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 41, 209 - 221.