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Abantis elegantula subsp. elegantula Mabille 1890
Description
210. Abantis elegantula elegantula (Mabille, 1890)
WL: 20mm. This species appears to be more associated with forest than with savanna. The nominate subspecies reportedly occurs in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. Subspecies A. e. decidua, whose validity is discussed by Mendes (2005), flies from Cameroon to PRC, CAR, DRC, south Sudan, western Kenya and Zambia. The caterpillars reportedly feed on Pterocarpus spp. (Fabaceae).
Previous references. Regions: Oio. Authors: Mendes et al. (2007).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.
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 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Mabille
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Abantis
- Species
- elegantula
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Abantis elegantula subsp. elegantula Mabille, 1890 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- 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.