Oboronia

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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Oboronia
Species: O. albicosta –O. bueronica –O. guessfeldti –O. liberiana –O. pseudopunctatus –O. punctatus

Name

Oboronia Karsch, 1893.

Type species: Oboronia staudingeri by selection of Hemming, 1960: 33, see also: Hemming, 1967: 318.

Synonymy

• Oboronia Karsch, 1893: 229; Hemming, 1967: 318; Kielland, 1990: 224; Bridges, 1994: IV.31, IX.83; Ackery,Smith,Vane-Wright, 1995: 669.
• Athysonata Karsch, 1895: 297. TS: Lycaena ornata Mabille, 1890: 24, pl.2 fig.6 by monotypy. Synonymised by Larsen, 2005.

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. 
• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Dewitz, H. 1879. Afrikanische Schmetterlinge. Mittheilungen des Münchener Entomologischen Vereins 3: 23–35. Reference page. 
• Dewitz, H. 1879. Afrikanische Tagschmetterlinge. Nova Acta Akademiae Caesarea Leopoldina-Carolinae Germanicum Naturae Curiousorum 41(2): 173-212 Pls. 1,2. Reference page. 
• Hemming, A. F., 1960. The provision of a name for the species incorrectly cited as Lycaena elorea Staudinger, by Karsch when establishing the genus Oboronia in 1895. Annotationes Lepidopterologicae IV(1): 31–40. 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. 
• Holland, W.J., 1890. Descriptions of new West African Lycaenidae. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 5: 423–431. Reference page. 
• Karsch, F., 1893. Die Insekten der Berglandschaft Adeli im Hinterlande von Togo (Westafrika). Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift 38: 1-266. Reference page. 
• Karsch, F. 1895. Aethiopische Rhopaloceren II. Entomologische Nachrichten 21: 289–322. Reference page. 
• Kielland, J., 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363, 68 pls.,179 figs. Reference page. 
• Larsen, T.B. 2005. Butterflies of West Africa. 2 vols, Apollo Books, Svendborg, Denmark: 1–595, 1–270. Reference page. 
• Savela, M. Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Funet.fi. Online.
• Stempffer, H., 1950. Contribution à l'étude des Lycaenidae du Liberia. Bulletin de l'Institut francais d'Afrique Noire 12(A): 402-407. ill. Reference page. 

Links

• Type images: RMCA.
  
• Data: Lepindex 1; 2.