Life
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Ditrysia
Papilionoidea
Lycaenidae
Poritiinae
- Mimeresia Stempffer, 1961
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Mimeresia Stempffer, 1961; Ann. Mus. roy Afr.-Centr. (8) (Sci.zool.) 94: 24, TS: Liptena libentina Hewitson
Mimeresia (Liptenini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 424; [BK, 160]
Mimeresia (Mimacraeina) ; [AfrL]
-. See [About maps]
Liptena libentina Hewitson, 1866; Ill. exot. Butts [5] (Pentila & Liptena): [66], pl. [33], f. 8-9, TL: Old Calabar
Mimeresia libentina ; [AfrL]
Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroun
Mimeresia libentina libentina ; [BAFR, 431]; [AfrL]
Fernando Póo, Nigeria - Ivory Coast, Liberia
Pseuderesia libentina var. isabellae Schultze, 1917; Archiv Naturg. 82 A (3) : 36
Mimeresia libentina isabellae ; [BAFR, 431 (text)]; [AfrL]
-. See [About maps]
Pseuderesia debora Kirby, 1890; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 6 (33) : 264, TL: Barombi, Cameroons
Mimeresia debora ; [AfrL]
Cameroun, Congo Republic, Gabon
Mimeresia debora debora ; [BAFR, 431]; [AfrL]
W.Zaire
Mimeresia debora deborula ; [BAFR, 431 (text)]; [AfrL]
Ghana - Sierra Leone
Pseuderesia catori Bethune-Baker, 1904; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 14 (81) : 225, TL: Sierra Leone
Mimeresia debora catori ; [BAFR, 431]; [AfrL]
E.Zaire, W.Uganda
Mimeresia debora barnsi ; [BAFR, 431 (text)]; [AfrL]
-. See [About maps]
Pseuderesia dinora Kirby, 1890; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 6 (33) : 265, TL: Cameroons
?Pseuderesia carlota Suffert, 1904; Dt. Ent. Z. Iris 17 (1) : 47, TL: Albrechthöhe, N.Camerun
Mimeresia dinora ; [AfrL]
Larva on
(lichen on tree trunks) [BK]
S.Nigeria, Cameroun
Mimeresia dinora dinora ; [BAFR, 432]; [AfrL]
W.Uganda (Katera)
Mimeresia dinora meyerbeeri D'Abrera, 1980; Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region: 432, fig., TL: Katera, Sango Bay, Masaka, Uganda
W.Kenya, Uganda, NE.Zaire
Mimeresia dinora discirubra ; [BK: 160, pl. 12, f. 128]; [BAFR, 432]; [AfrL]
-. See [About maps]
Mimeresia drucei ; [AfrL]
Cameroun - Congo Republic
Mimeresia drucei drucei ; [BAFR, 432]; [AfrL]
W.Uganda (Bwamba), E.Zaire
Mimeresia drucei ugandae ; [BAFR, 432 (text)]; [AfrL]
Nigeria
Memeresia drucei owerri ; [BAFR, 432 (text)]
Mimeresia drucei owerri ; [AfrL]
-. See [About maps]
Mimeresia moreelsi ; [AfrL]
C.Zaire
Mimeresia moreelsi moreelsi ; [BAFR, 432 (text)]; [AfrL]
Cameroun, Congo Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
Mimeresia moreelsi tessmanni ; [BAFR, 432]; [AfrL]
E.Zaire, W.Uganda
Memeresia moreelsi purpurea ; [BAFR, 432 (text)]
Mimeresia moreelsi purpurea ; [AfrL]
-. See [About maps]
Mimeresia favillacea ; [AfrL]
S.Cameroun, Equatorial Guinea, lower course of Zaire R.
Mimeresia favillacea favillacea ; [BAFR, 432]; [AfrL]
Uganda, E.Zaire
Mimeresia favillacea griseata ; [BAFR, 432 (text)]; [AfrL]
-. See [About maps]
Pseuderesia russulus Druce, 1910; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1910 (1) : 360, pl. 33, f. 8, TL: Upper Kasai distr., Congo Free State
Mimeresia russulus ; [AfrL]
Cameroun, Congo Republic, SW.Zaire
Mimeresia russulus russulus ; BAFR, 432; [AfrL]
SE.Zaire
Mimeresia russulus katangae ; [BAFR, 432 (text)]; [AfrL]
W.Uganda (Budongo Forest)
Mimeresia russulus unyoro ; [AfrL]; [BAFR, 432]
Gabon, Congo Republic, Cameroun, Nigeria, Ivory Coast. See [About maps]
Pseuderesia cellularis Kirby, 1890; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 6 (33) : 263, TL: Cameroons
Mimeresia cellularis ; [BAFR, 432]; [AfrL]
Uganda, NE.Zaire. See [About maps]
Pseuderesia neavei Joicey & Talbot, 1921; Bull. Hill Mus. 1 (1) : 80, pl. 14, f. 49-50, TL: W. Semliki River, near Lesse
Mimeresia neavei ; [BAFR, 432]; [EBW]; [AfrL]
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- References:
- [About maps]
- Warning! The maps are automatically 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
- [EBW]
- Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6
- Some related literature:
- Bethune-Baker, 1904
- On new Species of Rhopalocera from Sierra Leone
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 14 (81)
: 222-233
- Druce, 1910
- Descriptions of new Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae from Tropical West Africa
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1910 (1)
: 356-378, pl. 33-35
- Eliot, 1973
- The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement
Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6)
: 373-505, 162fgs, pl. 1-6
- Hewitson, 1866
- Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson
Ill. exot. Butts [5]
: (Systematic Index) V,
(Anteros): [1-2], pl. [1] (1867),
(Erycina & Necyria): [3-4], pl. [2] (1870),
(Erycina Symmachia &c): [5-6], pl. [3] (1875),
(Necyria & Esthemopsis): [7-8], pl. [4] (1872),
(Calydna): [9-10], pl. [5] (1854),
(Calydna II): [11-12], pl. [6] (1859),
(Theope): [13-14], pl. [7] (1860),
(Symmachia): [15-16], pl. [8] (1867),
(Symmachia & Charis II): [17-18], pl. [9] (1871),
(Charis): [19-20], pl. [10] (1866),
(Emesis): [21-22], pl. [11] (1872),
(Nymphidium I): [23-24], pl. [12] (1853),
(Nymphidium II-III): [25-28], pl. [13-14] (1865),
(Nymphidium IV): [29-30], pl. [15] (1871),
(Lemonias I): [31-32], pl. [16] (1853),
(Lemonias II): [33-34], pl. [17] (1858),
(Lemonias III-IV): [35-38], pl. [18-19] (1863),
(Lemonias V): [39-40], pl. [20] (1872),
(Lemonias & Baeotis): [41-42], pl. [21] (1875),
(Lemonias & Baeotis): [43-44], pl. [22] (1874),
(Pachythone & Cremna): [45-46], pl. [23] (1873),
(Hades, Uraneis, &c): [47-48], pl. [24] (1870),
(Limnas I-II): [49-52], pl. [25-26] (1853),
(Limnas & Panara): [53-54], pl. [27] (1875),
(Limnas &c): [55-56], pl. [28] (1876),
(Limnas & Ithomeis): [57-58], pl. [29] (1870),
(Chamaelimnas & Ithomiola): [59-60], pl. [30] (1871),
(Hermathena &c): [61-62], pl. [31] (1875),
(Ogyris): [63-64], pl. [32] (1853),
(Pentila & Liptena): [65-66], pl. [33] (1866),
(Pentila & Liptena II): [67-68], pl. [34] (1873),
(Lycaena): [69-70], pl. [35] (1876),
(Pyrrhopyga I-II): [71-74], pl. [36-37] (1857),
(Pyrrhopyga): [75-76], pl. [38] (1869),
(Pyrrhopyga II-III): [77-80], pl. [39-40] (1871),
(Pyrrhopyga IV): [81-82], pl. [41] (1873),
(Pyrrhopyga V & Erycides): [83-84], pl. [42] (1875),
(Ismene I-II): [85-88], pl. [43-44] (1867),
(Eudamus): [89-90], pl. [45] (1873),
(Eudamus II-III): [91-94], pl. [46-47] (1875),
(Chaetocneme): [95-96], pl. [48] (1874),
(Hesperia I-II): [97-100], pl. [49-50] (1867),
(Hesperia III): [101-102], pl. [51] (1868),
(Hesperia IV): [103-104], pl. [52] (1869),
(Hesperia V): [105-106], pl. [53] (1872),
(Hesperia V*-VI): [107-110], pl. [54-55] (1873),
(Hesperia VII): [111-112], pl. [56] (1876),
(Leucochitonea): [113-114], pl. [57] (1869),
(Leucochitonea II): [115-116], pl. [58] (1875),
(Pterygospidea): [117-118], pl. [59] (1873),
(Cyclopides): [119-120], pl. [60] (1874),
(Cyclopides & Hesperilla): [121-122], pl. [61] (1874)
- Joicey & Talbot, 1921
- New Lepidoptera Collected by Mr. T. A. Barns, in East Central Africa. New Forms of Rhopalocera
Bull. Hill Mus. 1 (1)
: 44-118, pl. 5-16
- Kirby, 1890
- Descriptions of new Species of African Lycaenidae, chiefly from the Collections of Dr Staudinger and Mr Henley Grose Smith
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 6 (33)
: 261-274
- Schultze, 1917
- Weitere neue Rhopaloceren aus der Ausbeute der II. Inner-Afrika-Expedition des Herzogs Adolf Friedrich zu Meclenburg
Archiv Naturg. 82 A (3)
: 34-39
- Suffert, 1904
- Neue afrikansche Tagfalter aus dem kön. zool. Museum, Berlin, und meiner Sammlung
Dt. Ent. Z. Iris 17 (1)
: 12-107, pl.
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