Life
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Ditrysia
Papilionoidea
Lycaenidae
Polyommatinae
- Actizera Chapman, 1910
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Actizera Chapman, 1910; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910: 483, TS: Lycaena atrigemmata Butler
Actizizera ; Sharp, [1911], in Zool. Rec. 47 (year 1910) (Ins.): 321 (missp.)
Actizera (Polyommatini) ; [BK, 239]; [AfrL]
South Africa - E.Africa - Kenya, Madagascar. See [About maps]
Rayed Blue
Lycaena lucida Trimen, 1883; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1883: 348
Actizera lucida ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 119, f. 4]; [BAFR, 550]; [MadL]; [AfrL]
Larva on
Oxalis sp.,
Argyrolobium sp.,
Rhyncosia sp.,
Crotalaria lanceolata [PBSA]
Actizera lucida lucida ; [BK: 239, pl. 25, f. 346]
Madagascar. See [About maps]
Zizera drucei Bethune-Baker, 1906
Actizera lucida drucei ;
Actizera drucei ; [MadL, fn. 100]; [AfrL]
Cape, Orange Free State, Ethiopia, S.Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Zaire (Kivu), Tanzania, N.Malawi. See [About maps]
Clover Blue
Lycaena stellata Trimen, 1883; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1883: 349
Actizera stellata ; [EBW, (name)]; [BOW: pl. 119, f. 5]; [BAFR, 551]; [BK: 239, pl. 25, f. 347]; [AfrL]
Larva on
Trifolium africanum [PBSA]
Madagascar. See [About maps]
Lycaena atrigemmata Butler, 1878; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 2: 290
Actizera atrigemmata ; [BAFR, 550]; [MadL]; [AfrL]
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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
- [BAFR]
- D'Abrera, 1980; Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region
- [BK]
- Larsen, Torben B., 1996; The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history
- [BOW]
- Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X
- [EBW]
- Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6
- [MadL]
- Lees, D.C., Kremen, C. and Raharitsimba, H. 2003; in S.M. Goodman & J. P. Benstead (eds.), The Natural History of Madagascar; Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist: : pp. 762-793; University of Chicago Press. 1709 pp.
- [PBSA]
- Dickson, C.G.C (ed.), Kroon, D.M.; Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa; AD. DONKER 1978
- Some related literature:
- Trimen, 1883
- Descriptions of twelve new species of South African Lepidoptera Rhopalocera
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1883: 347-363
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