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Pierinae

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Pierinae: Incertae sedis

De Baar and Hancock (1993) revised the Australian species of Elodina Felder & Felder and, like Klots (1933), treated Elodinesthes Fruhstorfer as a synonym of Elodina. De Baar (2004) subsequently produced an updated list of all lower taxa assigned to Elodina.

Stoneham (1940) erected the monotypic genus Pseudohuphina Stoneham to accommodate the species Belenois raffrayi Oberthür, but this proposal has subsequently been ignored by modern authorities (e.g. Bernardi 1953; Larsen 1991; Ackery et al. 1995). Bernardi (1953) described Pseudanaphaeis Bernardi as a subgenus of Belenois and included two Afrotropical species in it, but Ackery et al. (1995) treated Pseudanaphaeis as a synonym of Belenois. van Son (1949) and Ackery et al. (1995) also regarded Anaphaeis Hübner, treated as a subgenus of Belenois by Klots (1933), as a synonym of Belenois.

Notes

Published as part of Braby, Michael F., 2005, Provisional checklist of genera of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 832 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170669

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Pieridae
Taxon rank
subFamily

References

  • De Baar, M. & Hancock, D. L. (1993) The Australian species of Elodina C. & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Australian Entomologist, 20, 25 - 43.
  • Klots, A. B. (1933) A generic classification of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera) together with a study of the male genitalia. Entomologica america, 12, 139 - 242.
  • De Baar, M. (2004) Notes on the status of some Elodina C. & R. Felder species (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Australian Entomologist, 31, 37 - 42.
  • Stoneham, H. F. (1940) Notes on the African Genus Colotis, Hubnr (Teracolus, Swin.) and some new forms. Bulletin of the Stoneham Museum, Nairobi, 40, 1 - 4.
  • Bernardi, G. (1953) Note sur la taxonomie des genres Belenois HB. et Anaphaeis HB., (Lep. Pieridae). Revue Francaise D'Entomologie, Paris, 20, 47 - 53.
  • Larsen, T. (1991) Butterflies of Kenya and Their Natural History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, xxii + 490 pp.
  • Ackery, P. R., Smith, C. R. & Vane-Wright, R. I. (1995) Carcasson's African Butterflies. An Annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, xi + 803 pp.
  • van Son, G. (1949) The Butterflies of Southern Africa. Part 1. Papilionidae and Pieridae. The Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, vi + 237 pp., 41 pls.