Pentila hewitsoni

Tingra laura from Rhopalocera Exotica, 1891.

Pentila hewitsoni as tropicalis ♀.

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: Pentilina
Genus: Pentila
Species: Pentila hewitsoni
Subspecies: (2) per Williams, 2007.
P. h. hewitsoni – P. h. limbata

Name

Pentila hewitsoni (Kirby, 1887).

Type locality: Nigeria: [“Old Calabar”].

Holotype: tbc.

Synonymy

• Pentila tropicalis ♀ Hewitson, [1866], misidentification, per Kirby, 1887: 364.
• Tingra hewitsonii [sic] Kirby, 1887: 364.
• Tingra laura Kirby, 1890: 267; Grose-Smith & Kirby, [1891]: 61, pl.15 figs 1-3. Nigeria: “Lagos”. Synonymy in Williams, 2007.
• Pentila hewitsoni (Grose-Smith & Kirby) [sic]; Aurivillius, 1922: 308, pl.61g.
• Pentila hewitsoni leura [sic] [form] (Kirby); Stempffer, 1967: 18.
• Pentila hewitsoni hewitsoni (Grose-Smith & Kirby) [sic]; Stempffer & Bennett, 1961: 1199 fig. + genit.; Stempffer, 1967: 18; Williams, 2007: Pentilina 31.

References

• Aurivillius, C. 1908–1925. In: Seitz, A., 1908–25. Die Großschmetterlinge des Afrikanischen Faunengebietes. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 13: 1-613, pls. 1-80. Reference page. 
• Kirby, W. F. 1887. Descriptions of new species of Papilionidae, Pieridae and Lycaenidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)19: 360–369. BHL Reference page. 
• Stempffer, H. & Bennett, N.H. 1961. Revision du genre Pentila Westwood (Lep. Lycaenidae). Bulletin de l’Institut Francais d’Afrique Noire (A) 23: 1098–1211. 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. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.