Durbania amakosa

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: Durbaniina
Genus: Durbania
Species: Durbania amakosa
Subspecies: (7) [per Williams Afrotropical butterflies]
D. a. albescens – D. a. amakosa – D. a. ayresi – D. a. flavida – D. a. natalensis – D. a. penningtoni – D. a. sagittata

Name

Durbania amakosa Trimen, 1862.

Type locality: [South Africa]: “King William‟s Town and Windvogelberg”.

Holotype: tbc.

D’Urbania amakosa Trimen, 1862: 401.
Durbania amakoza Trimen; Swanepoel, 1953. [Misspelling of species name]
Durbania amakosa Trimen; Dickson & Kroon, 1978; Pringle et al., 1994: 129; D'Abrera, 2009: 626.
Durbania amakosa amakosa Trimen; Stempffer, 1967: 27.

D'Abrera, B., 2009. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, second edition, Part 3, Theclinae, Polyommatinae, Riodinidae. Hill House, Melbourne, London. 260pp. Reference page.
C.G.C. Dickson, 1978. List of southern African lycaenid subfamilies and genera, in approximate systematic sequence. In: Dickson, C.G.C., & Kroon, D.M. [Eds]. Pennington’s butterflies of southern Africa. A.D. Donker, Johannesburg: 1–670. Reference page.
Pringle, Henning & Ball [Eds], 1994. Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa 2nd edn. Struik Winchester, Cape Town: 1-800. Reference page.
Seitz, A. 1908–1927. Die afrikanischen Tagfalter. Die Grossschmetterlinge der Erde 13: 1–613, pls. 1–80. Reference page.
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., 1862. On some new species of South African butterflies collected in British Kaffraria by W.S.M. D'Urban Esq., during 1860–1861. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3)1(4): 398–406. BHL. Reference page.

Williams, M. C., 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Durbania Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.