Chloroselas

Chloroselas esmerelda Butler, [1886], ♂, from original description.

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: Aphnaeinae
Genus: Chloroselas
Species: C. arabica – C. argentea – C. azurea – C. esmeralda – C. mazoensis – C. minima – C. ogadenensis – C. overlaeti – C. pseudozeritis – C. tamaniba – C. taposana – C. trembathi – C. vansomereni

Name

Chloroselas Butler, [1886]: 765.

Type species: Chloroselas esmerelda Butler, [1886]: 765, fig.4, by original designation.

Synonymy

• Desmolycaena Trimen, 1898: 7, TS: Desmolycaena mazoensis Trimen, 1898, by original designation. [Treated as a good genus in Ackery, et al., 1995: 562, but regarded as a synonym of Chloroselas Butler by Heath, 1997: 12. See also: Williams, 2008.

References

• Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page. 
• Butler, A. G., [1886]. An account of two collections of Lepidoptera recently received from Somali-land. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1885(4): 756–776, pl. 47. Reference page. 
• Heath, A. 1997. A review of African genera of the tribe Aphnaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Metamorphosis. Occasional supplement (2). Full publication, with link to PDF. Reference page. 
• Libert, M., Annoyer, P. 2015: Un nouveau Chloroselas de Centrafrique (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Aphnaeinae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 120(1): 31–36. Full article (pdf). Reference page. 
• Trimen, R., 1898. On some new or little-known species of African butterflies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1898: 1–16, Pl.1. BHL, Plate. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.