Eurema (Eurema) brigitta subsp. brigitta Stoll 1780
Description
16. Eurema (Eurema) brigitta brigitta (Stoll, 1780)
WL: 18mm. A savanna species centred on the Guinea savanna and common in Guinea-Bissau. The nominate subspecies occurs throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa and south-western Arabia. The caterpillars are polyphagous, feeding on several Hypericaceae and Fabaceae.
Studied material. Bafatá: Tabandinto, woodland, 0 9.02.2013, 1♂ (SV) (CZ000010962). Biombo: Quinhamel, 22.07.2009, 4♂ 1♀ (BS 29441/29444, 29524). Cacheu: Caió, very common (JB). Gabú: Canjadude, 0 2.07.2009, 4♂ 1♀ (BS 29436/ 29437, 29482/29483, 29522); Petaqui, 04- 07.07.2009, 4♂ (BS 29438/29440, 29523); Beli, 2♀ (JG 2, 31) (CZ 5896); Dongol Quebube, 1♀ (JG 26) (CZ 5897); Taibata, 25.02.2013, 1♂ (SV) (CZ000010963).
Previous references. Regions: Biombo, Bissau, Bolama, Cacheu, Gabú, Oio, Quinara, Tombali. Authors: Bacelar (1949), Bivar-de-Sousa & Passos-de-Carvalho (1987), Bivar-de-Sousa & Mendes (1999), Larsen (2005), Bivar-de-Sousa et al. (2007).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: VC; CS: LC.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2009-07-07 , 2009-07-22
- Verbatim event date
- 2009-07-07 , 2009-07-22
- Scientific name authorship
- Stoll
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pieridae
- Genus
- Eurema
- Species
- brigitta
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eurema (Eurema) brigitta subsp. brigitta Stoll, 1780 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Stoll, C. (1780 - 1782) Die Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie waerelddeelen Asia, Africa en America 4 [part]. Chez S. G. Baalde, Amsteldam & chez Barth. Wild, Utrecht, 224 pp. [pp. 29 - 252, completion of work begun by Cramer, P.]
- 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.