Uranothauma falkensteinii

Uranothauma falkensteinii from Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 1909

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: Uranothauma
Species: Uranothauma falkensteinii

Name

Uranothauma falkensteinii (Dewitz, 1879).

Type locality: Angola: “Guinea auf dem 10E S.B., zwischen dem 17-22E O.L. von Greenw.”.

Holotype: not located.

Synonymy

• Note: Original spelling of falkensteinii has been repeatedly misread by subsequent authors as falkensteini.
• Plebeius falkensteinii Dewitz, 1879: 204, pl. 25, fig. 5.
• Uranothauma falkensteini [sic] (Dewitz); Butler, [1901]: 928; Williams, 2008, Polyommatini 1: 20.
• Uranothauma falkensteinii (Dewitz); Heron, 1909: 161, pl.5 figs 19,20.
• Uranothauma falkensteini umbra (♀ forma) Talbot, 1935: 148. Kenya: “Dabida, ca. 100 miles north-west of Mombasa, Wusi, ca. 4,200 ft”. Type: ♀ OUMNH, images.
• Uranothauma falkensteini albescens (forma) Stoneham, 1937: 3. Kenya: “East Surrey Estates”.

References

• Butler, A.G. [1901]. On two consignments of butterflies collected by Mr. Richard Crawshay in the Kikuyu country of British East Africa in 1899 and 1900. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900: 911–946, Pl.58. text, Plate. 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. 
• Heron, F. A., 1909. Zoological results of the Ruwenzori expedition, 1905-1906, 12, Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 19(2): 141-178, pl.5. Reference page. 
• Stoneham, H.F., 1937. Notes on African Lycaenidae, and new forms. Bulletin of the Stoneham Museum (34): 3 pp. Reference page. 
• Talbot, G. 1935. New species and forms of African Lycaenidae (Lep.: Rhop.) [and supplement]. Entomologist's monthly magazine 71: 69-78, 115-127, 147-153; ill.; Suppl.: 202-209; ill. buy. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.