Spialia mafa

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: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Pyrginae
Tribus: Carcharodini
Subtribus: Carcharodina
Genus: Spialia
Subgenus: Spialia
Speciesː Spialia mafa
Subspecies: S. m. higginsi –S. m. mafa

Name

Spialia mafa (Trimen, 1870)

Type localityː South Africa, "Basutoland".

Typusː male BMNH.

Synonymy

• Pyrgus mafa Trimen, 1870: 386, Pl.6 Fig.12.
• Hesperia mafa (Trimen); Seitz, [1908]: Pl.75 Row.c.
• Spialia mafa mafa (Trimen); Evans, 1937: 62; Kielland, 1990: 236; Bridges, 1994: viii.132; Zhang et al., 2020: 188.

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. 
• 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. 
• Kielland, J., 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363, 68 pls.,179 figs. Reference page. 
• Seitz, A. 1908–1927. Die afrikanischen Tagfalter. Die Grossschmetterlinge der Erde 13: 1–613, pls. 1–80. Reference page. 
• Trimen, R., 1870. Notes on butterflies collected by J.H. Bowker, Esq., in Basuto-land, South Africa; with descriptions of some new species. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1870: 341–390.Reference page. 
• Zhang, J., Brockmann, E., Cong, Q., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2020. A genomic perspective on the taxonomy of the subtribe Carcharodina (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Carcharodini). Zootaxa 4748(1): 182–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.10 Reference page.