Vanessa dimorphica
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Nymphalinae
Tribus: Nymphalini
Genus: Vanessa
Species: Vanessa dimorphica
Subspecies:
V. d. aethiopica –
V. d. comoroica –
V. d. dimorphica –
V. d. mortoni –
V. d. upembana
Name
[edit]Vanessa dimorphica (Howarth, 1966).
Type locality: Uganda, Ruwenzori range, Namwamba Valley, 6,500 ft.
Holotype: BMNH. male ♂. XII.1934–I.1935. leg. T.H.E. Jackson.
Synonymy
[edit]- Antanartia dimorphica Howarth, 1966: 33, pl. 4, f. 28–33.
- Vanessa dimorphica (Howarth); Wahlberg & Rubinoff, 2011: 366.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Howarth, T.G. 1966. Revisional notes on the genus Antanartia (Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 18: 21–43, pl. 1–5. Online. Reference page.
- Wahlberg, N. & Rubinoff, D. 2011. Vagility across Vanessa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): mobility in butterfly species does not inhibit the formation and persistence of isolated sister taxa. Systematic Entomology 36(2): 362–370. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00566.x Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Bouyer, T. 2010. Description d’une nouvelle sous-espèce d’Antanartia du Katanga (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Entomologia Africana 15(1): 19–21. Addenda corrigenda in 16(2): 48. ResearchGate Reference page.
- Williams, M.C., 2008: Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea.