Geritola virginea

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: Geritola
Species: Geritola virginea

Name

Geritola virginea Bethune-Baker, 1904.

Type locality: Sierra Leone: “Sierra Leone [Moyamba (Larsen, 2005)]”.

Holotype: ♀ BMNH; Allotype ♂ BMNH, Sierra Leone, Daru.

Synonymy

• Epitola virginea Bethune-Baker, 1904: 230; Roche, 1954: 501, pl.20 figs 17,18; Jackson, 1962: 139.
• Geritola virginea (Bethune-Baker); Libert, 1999.
• Geritola (Geritola) virginea (Druce); Williams, 2007: Epitolina 22.

References

• Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1904. On new species of Rhopalocera from Sierra Leone. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7)14: 222–233. BHL. Reference page. 
• Jackson, T.H.E. 1962. Notes on the Epitolinae with descriptions of a new genus and a new species and subspecies. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 12: 125–163. BHL. Reference page. 
• Larsen, T.B. 2005. Butterflies of West Africa. 2 vols, Apollo Books, Svendborg, Denmark: 1–595, 1–270. Reference page. 
• Libert, M. 1999. Révision des genres Epitola Westwood, Hypophytala Clench et Stempfferia Jackson, et description de trois nouveaux genres (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). A.B.R.I., Nairobi and Lambillionea, Tervuren, February, 1999, 219 pp. Reference page. 
• Roche, P., 1954. Revisional Notes on the Genus Epitola (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 3(13): 489-502, pls 19-22. text, plates. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.