Deloneura

Deloneura

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Poritiinae
Tribus: Liptenini
Subtribus: Epitolina
Genus: Deloneura
Species: D. abri – D. barca – D. immaculata – D. millari – D. ochrascens – D. sheppardi – D. subfusca

Name

Deloneura Trimen, 1868: 81.

Type species: Deloneura immaculata Trimen, 1868: 83, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Poultonia Neave, 1904: 336, (invalid, junior homonym of Poultonia Peckham, 1901)
• Ebepius Hemming, 1964: 141, (replacement name for Poultonia Neave, 1904)

References

• Hemming, A. F., 1964. Introduction, as replacements for names invalid under the Law of Homonymy, of names for two genera of the family Lycaenidae. Annotationes Lepidopterologicae 4: 141–142. Reference page. 
• Neave, S.A., 1904. On a large collection of rhopalocera from the shores of the Victoria Nyanza. Novitates Zoologicae 11: 323–363, pl. 1. text, plate. Reference page. 
• Pennington, K.M., 1953: New species and subspecies and other additions to the butterflies of Southern Africa, together with new records of little known species. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 16: 94–111.
• Stempffer, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology. Supplement 10: 322pp, 1pl. BHL Reference page. 
• Trimen, R., 1868. On some undescribed species of South African butterflies including a new genus of Lycaenidae. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 16(1): 69–96. BHL. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Large Buffs