Andronymus Holland 1896
Creators
- 1. C / o CABI Europe - UK, Bakeham Lane, Egham, TW 20 9 TY, UK (e-mail: m. cock @ cabi. org; mjwcock @ btinternet. com)
- 2. African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI), P. O. Box 14308, Nairobi, Kenya (e-mail: colin. congdon @ gmail. com)
Description
Andronymus Holland, 1896
This is a genus of about ten species, restricted to the Afrotropical Region. Since the treatment in Evans (1937), Usher (1980) revised the five species of what he called the A. caesar complex of species, Larsen (2005) indicated additional adjustments, and new species have since been described (Congdon & Collins 1998, Larsen & Congdon 2012).
Vuattoux (1999) lists a single food plant record of ‘ Andronymus sp. hero / caesar ’ reared from a caterpillar reared on Cynometra megalophylla (Fabaceae). The status of the reared adult was uncertain because it was a crumpled female, having failed to emerge and expand its wings properly, but it belonged in the group including A. hero and A. caesar, and most likely was one of these two species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Andronymus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Holland
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Andronymus Holland, 1896 sec. Cock & Congdon, 2013
References
- Holland, W. J. (1896) A preliminary revision and synonymic catalogue of the Hesperiidae of Africa and the adjacent islands, with descriptions of some apparently new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1896, 2 - 107, plates I - V. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1896. tb 03030. x
- Evans, W. H. (1937) A catalogue of the African Hesperiidae indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London, UK, 212 pp, 30 plates.
- Usher, M. B. (1980) The Andronymus caesar complex of species (Hesperiidae). Systematic Entomology, 5, 291 - 302. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.1980. tb 00417. x
- Larsen, T. B. (2005) Butterflies of West Africa. 2 vols. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 595 pp. & 270 pp.
- Congdon, C. & Collins, S. [1998] Kielland's Butterflies of Tanzania Supplement. African Butterfly Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya & Union des Entomologistes Belges, Tervuren, Belgium, 143 pp., 6 plates.
- Larsen, T. B. & Congdon, T. C. E. (2012) The genus Ampittia in Africa with the description of a new species (Hesperiinae; Aeromachini) and three new species in the genera Andronymus and Chondrolepis (Hesperiinae, incertae sedis) (Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). Zootaxa, 3322, 49 - 62.
- Vuattoux, R. (1999) Les lepidopteres hesperiides de la Station de Lamto (Cote d'Ivoire). Lambillionea, 94, 562 - 568.