Elymnias bammakoo

E. bammakoo bammakoo & E. bammakoo rattrayi (far right), in Seitz, Lep. Afr.

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: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Satyrinae
Tribus: Elymniini
Subtribus: Elymniina
Genus: Elymnias
Species: Elymnias bammakoo
Subspecies: (2) per Wei et al, 2017.
E. b. bammakoo – E. b. rattrayi

Name

Elymnias bammakoo Westwood, 1851.

Type locality: Ashanti (Ghana: Ashanti Region).

Holotype: BMNH

Synonymy

• Papilio phegea Fabricius, 1793: 132 (preocc. Papilio phegea Borkhausen, 1788). TL: Uganda. ZMUC.
• Melanitis bammakoo Westwood, 1851: 405, pl.68 fig.3.
• Elymnias phegea intermedia (var.) Aurivillius, 1898: 45, NRM.
• Elymnias phegea angustata (ab.) Bartel, 1905: 129. TL: Kamerun, Barombi Station.
• Elymniopsis bammakoo hybrida (var.) Niepelt, 1915: 58. TL: Kassai River (Democratic Republic of Congo: Kasai River) BMNH.
• Elymniopsis lise Hemming, 1960. Annotationes lepidopterologicae 1: 30. TL: Uganda. TS: ZMUC. (replaced Papilio phegea Fabricius, 1793).

References

• Aurivillius, C. [1899]. RHOPALOCERA ǼTHIOPICA; die Tagfalter des Ǽthiopischen Faunengebietes… 31(5): 1-561. Reference page. 
• Bartel, 1905. Neue Aethiopische Rhoipalocera des Kgl. Museums fur Naturkunde in Berlin. Novitates Zoologicae 12: 129-152. BHL. Reference page. 
• Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus II. Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae, viii + 519 pp. BHL Gallica. Reference page. 
• Niepelt, F.W. 1915. Neue Formen exotischer Tagfalter. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift 9: 58. BHL Reference page. 
• Westwood, J.O. [1851]. In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O., 1850–1852: The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera Vol.2. pp.251–534, pls.31–80 + suppl.pl. London. text, plates. Reference page.