Leona leonora

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: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Astictopterini
Genus: Leona
Species: Leona leonora
Subspecies: L. l. dux –L. l. leonora

Name

Leona leonora Plötz, 1879.

Type locality: Cameroons, "Victoria".

Typus: tbc

Synonymy

• Hesperia leonora Plötz, 1879: 355. (original combination)
• Leona leonora (Plötz); Evans, 1937: 7, 153; Hemming, 1967: 251.
• Caenides leonora leonora (Plötz); Kielland, 1990: 249, pl.62.
• Leona leonora leonora (Plötz); Bridges, 1994: IV.16, VIII.122, IX.34.

References

• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Cong, Q., Zhang, J., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 0731: 1–56. Online. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1–212. Reference page. 
• Hemming, A.F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1–509. BHL Reference page. 
• Kielland, J., 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363, 68 pls.,179 figs. Reference page. 
• Miller, L.D., 1971. Descriptions of new species and notes on other Hesperiidae of Africa. Bull. Allyn Museum 2: 1–17.PDF Reference page. 
• Plötz, C. 1879. Verzeichniss der vom verstorbenen Prof. Dr. R. Bucholz in West Africa - beim Meerbusen von Guinea - gesammelten Hesperien. Entomologische Zeitung 40: 353–364. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page. 

Links

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Photos

• metamorphosis.org.za: [1]

Vernacular names

English: White-spotted Large Recluse