Life
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Ditrysia
Hesperioidea
Hesperiidae
Pyrginae
- Sarangesa Moore, [1881]
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Small Flats, Elfins
Sarangesa Moore, [1881]; Lepid. Ceylon 1 (4): 176, TS: Sarangesa albicilia Moore
Sape Mabille, 1891; Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 35 (C. R.): lxvii [67], TS: Sape lucidella Mabille
Tabrena Holland, 1896; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896: 10, TS: Sarangesa aurimargo Holland
Sarangesa (Pyrginae) ; [BK, 397]; [AfrL]
Rhodesia. See [About maps]
Sarangesa astrigera Butler, 1893; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893: 669
Sarangesa astrigera ; [BOW: pl. 130, f. 29]; [AfrL]
Ghana - Uganda, W.Kenya. See [About maps]
Sarangesa bouvieri ; [BK: 399, pl. 58, f. 754]; [AfrL]
Sierra Leone - Uganda, Kenya. See [About maps]
Antigonus brigida Plötz, 1879; Stett. ent. Ztg 40: 361
Sarangesa aurimargo Holland, 1896; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896: 10, pl. 4, f. 8
Sarangesa brigida ; [AfrL]
Sarangesa brigida brigida ; [AfrL]
Kenya, Uganda
Sarangesa brigida atra Evans, 1937; Cat. African Hesp. Brit. Mus.: 48
Sarangesa brigida atra ; [BK: 399, pl. 58, f. 755]; [AfrL]
Sarangesa brigida sanaga ; [AfrL]
Sahara, Sudan. See [About maps]
Sarangesa elimanata ; [BOW: pl. 130, pl. 32 (text)]
Ghana, Abyssinia. See [About maps]
Sarangesa exprompta ; [BOW: pl. 130, pl. 30]
South West Africa. See [About maps]
Sarangesa gaerdesi Evans, 1949; Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus.: 55
Sarangesa gaerdesi ; [AfrL]
Larva on
Petalidium latifolium [PBSA]
Sarangesa gaerdesi gaerdesi ; [AfrL]
South West Africa
gaerdesi smithae Vári, 1976; Ann. Transv. Mus. 30: 120
Sarangesa gaerdesi smithae ; [AfrL]
Larva on
Petalidium variabile
Liberia - Gabon. See [About maps]
Sarangesa grisea ; [BOW: pl. 130, f. 31]
Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, E.Zaire, W.Kenya. See [About maps]
Sarangesa haplopa ; [BK: 398, pl. 58, f. 751]; [AfrL]
Larva on
Justicia [BK]
W.Africa - W.Kenya, Zimbabwe. See [About maps]
Sarangesa laelius ; [BOW: pl. 130, f. 32]; [BK: 397, pl. 58, f. 746]; [AfrL]
Rhodesia - Kenya, Sudan. See [About maps]
Marbled Elfin
Sape lucidella Mabille, 1891; Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 35 (C. R.): lxvii [67]
Sarangesa ganyi Bethune-Baker, 1906; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 17: 109
Sarangesa lucidella ; [BOW: pl. 130, f. 33 (text)]; [AfrL]
Sarangesa lucidella lucidella ; [BK: 397, pl. 58, f. 747]; [AfrL]
Sarangesa lucidella helena ; [AfrL]
Sarangesa lunula ; [AfrL]
Nigeria - Kenya - Mozambique. See [About maps]
Sarangesa maculata ; [BK: 399, pl. 58, f. 752]; [AfrL]
Sarangesa majorella ; [AfrL]
Sarangesa maxima ; [AfrL]
Angola - Cape - Natal - to (Rhodesia, Botswana) - Kenya, Ethiopia. See [About maps]
Elfin Skipper
Pterygospidea motozi Wallengren, 1857; K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Stockholm (n.f.) 2 (4): 53
Sarangesa motozi ; [BOW: pl. 130, f. 33]; [BK: 398, pl. 58, f. 750]; [AfrL]
Larva on
Peristrophe hensii [PBSA],
Barleria,
Justicia,
Peristrophe [BK]
Sarangesa motozioides ; [AfrL]
Rhodesia. See [About maps]
Sarangesa pandaensis ; [BOW: pl. 130, f. 29 (text)]; [AfrL]
Sarangesa pandaensis pandaensis ; [AfrL]
Sarangesa pandaensis deningi ; [AfrL]
Sarangesa penningtoni ; [AfrL]
Botswana, South West Africa, S.Arabia. See [About maps]
Orange Flat
Small Elfin
Cyclopides phidyle Walker, 1870; Entomologist 5 (4): 56
Sarangesa phidyle ; [BOW: pl. 130, f. 34]; [BK: 398, pl. 58, f. 748]; [AfrL]
Larva on
Peristrophe hensii [PBSA],
Barleria,
Peristrophe [BK]
Kenya, Tanzania. See [About maps]
Sarangesa princei Karsch, 1896; , TL: Kenya?, Janke Janka
Sarangesa princei ; [BK: 397, pl. 58, f. 745]; [AfrL]
Rhodesia, Transvaal. See [About maps]
Sarangesa ruona Evans, 1937; Cat. African Hesp. Brit. Mus.: 45
Sarangesa ruona ; [AfrL]
Natal, Transvaal, Botswana, Rhodesia - Kenya, Zaire. See [About maps]
Dusted Elfin
Sarangesa seineri Strand, 1909; Archiv. Naturgesch. 75 (1): 383
Saranges seineri ; [BOW: pl. 130, f. 35]
Sarangesa seineri ; [AfrL]
Sarangesa seineri seineri ; [BK: 398, pl. 58, f. 749]; [AfrL]
Natal
Sarangesa seineri durbana ; [AfrL]
Moçambique, Rhodesia, South West Africa
Sarangesa tertullianus ; [AfrL]
Sierra Leone - Uganda, W.Kenya?. See [About maps]
Sarangesa thecla ; [AfrL]
Sarangesa thecla thecla ; [AfrL]
Sarangesa thecla mabira ; [BK: 399, pl. 58, f. 753]; [AfrL]
Sierra Leone, Nigeria. See [About maps]
Sarangesa tricerata ; [BOW: pl. 130, f. 36]; [AfrL]
Sarangesa tricerata tricerata ; [AfrL]
Sarangesa tricerata compacta ; [AfrL]
Ceylon, S.India - Bombay - Madhya Pradesh, Kangra - Assam, Burma, Lucknow. See [About maps]
Commmon Small Flat
Sarangesa dasahara Moore, [1866]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (3): 787, TL: Bengal
?Nisoniades dasahara Moore, [1866]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (3): 787, TL: Bengal
Sarangesa dasahara dasahara, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Sarangesa dasahara ; [BOW: pl. 188, f. 38]; [MRS, 711]
NW.Himalaya - Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, S.Yunnan
Hesperia philippus Mabille, 1883; REF#: lxxvi, TL: "Brazil"
Sarangesa dasahara dasahara ; [BMP: 341, pl. 53, f. 12]; Huang & Xue, 2004, Neue Ent. Nachr. 57: 145 (name)
Sarangesa albicilia Moore, [1881]; Lepid. Ceylon 1 (4): 176, pl. 68, f. 5, 5a
N.Kanara - Sind, Madhya Pradesh, Kangra - Kumaon. See [About maps]
Spotted Small Flat
Sarangesa purendra Moore, 1882; : 162
Sarangesa purendra ; [BIR, 464]
Kutch
Tiny Flat
Sarangesa sati de Nicéville, 1891; J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (3): 391
= ?Sarangesa purendra ;
sati ; [BIR, 464]
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- References:
- [About maps]
- Warning! The maps are automaticly generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
- [AfrL]
- Mark C. Williams; Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); e-mail: Mark C. Williams
- [BIR]
- Wynter-Blyth, M. A., 1957; Butterflies of the Indian Region; (1982 Reprint)
- [BK]
- Larsen, Torben B., 1996; The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history
- [BMP]
- Eliot (Ed.), Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992; The Butterflies of The Malay Peninsula; 4th edition; ISBN 983-9681-05-2
- [BOW]
- Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X
- [MRS]
- Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2
- [PBSA]
- Dickson, C.G.C (ed.), Kroon, D.M.; Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa; AD. DONKER 1978
- [Yutaka Inayoshi]
- A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM
- [˛]
- This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.
- Some related literature:
- Butler, 1893
- On two collection of Lepidoptera sent by H. H. Johnston, Esq., C.B., from British Central Africa
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893: 643-684 [?1894]
- de Nicéville, 1891
- On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region
J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (3): 341-398, pls. F-G
- Evans, 1937
- A catalogue of the African Hesperiidae. British Museum
Cat. African Hesp. Brit. Mus.: 1-212, pl. 1-30
- Evans, 1949
- A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum
Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus.: xix, 502pp, pl. 1-53
- Huang & Xue, 2004
- A Contribution to the Butterfly Fauna of Southern Yunnan
Neue Ent. Nachr. 57: 135-154, pl. 11
- Mabille, 1891
- Description d'Hespérides nouvelles (1)
Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 35 (C. R.): lix-lxxxvii [59-87]
- Moore, [1866]
- On the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (3): 755-823, pl. 32-34
- Moore, [1881]
- The Lepidoptera of Ceylon
Lepid. Ceylon 1
(1): 1-40, pl. 1-18,
(2): 41-80, pl. 19-36,
(3): 81-136, pl. 37-54,
(4): 137-190, pl. 55-71
- Strand, 1909
- Schmetterlinge aus dem Sambesi-gebiet, gesammelt und dem Berliner Museum geschenkt von Herrn Franz Seiner
Archiv. Naturgesch. 75 (1): 375-386
- Walker, 1870
- A list of the [61] Butterflies collected by J.K. Lord Esq. in Egypt, along the African shore of the Red Sea, and in Arabia; with descriptions of the Species new to Science
Entomologist 5 (4): 48-57
- Wallengren, 1857
- Kafferlandets Dag-fjärilar, insamlade aren 1838-1845 af J.A. Wahlberg
K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Stockholm (n.f.) 2 (4): [1] -55
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