Caprona

Caprona Wallengren, 1857 Ragged Skippers

Caprona Wallengren, 1857; K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4): 51; TS: Caprona pillaana Wallengren
Abaratha (Hesperiidae) Moore, [1881]; Lepid. Ceylon 1 (4): 181; TS: Pterygospidea ransonnetii Felder
Stethotrix Mabille, 1889; Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1889: clxxxiv [184]; TS: Stethotrix heterogyna Mabille

Caprona (Pyrginae); [BK], 400; [AfrL]; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 64

Caprona pillaana Wallengren, 1857

South Africa, Rhodesia, Botswana, Moçambique - E.Africa, Ethiopia, SW.Arabia. See [maps]

Caprona pillaana Wallengren, 1857; K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4): 51
Stethotrix heterogyna Mabille, 1889; Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1889: clxxxiv [184]

Caprona pillaana; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 41; [BK]: 400, pl. 58, f. 756; [AfrL]

Caprona cassualalla Bethune-Baker, 1911

South West Africa. See [maps]

Caprona cassualalla Bethune-Baker, 1911; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 8 (46): 506

Caprona cassualalla; [AfrL]

Caprona adelica Karsch, 1892

W.Africa - Uganda, NW.Kenya, S.Sudan. See [maps] Western Ragged Skipper

Caprona adelica; [AfrL]

C. a. adelica

Caprona adelica adelica; [BK]: 400, pl. 58, f. 757

C. a. kordofani Bethune-Baker, 1916

Caprona adelica var. kordofani Bethune-Baker, 1916; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1916 (2): 285; TL: Tira Mandi

Caprona agama (Moore, [1858])

-. See [maps]

Pyrgus agama Moore, [1858]; in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy 1: 249, pl. 7, f. 1, 1a; TL: Java

Caprona agama agama, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]

Caprona agama; [MRS], 707; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 64

C. a. agama S.India - Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, S.China, Java, Sulawesi

Pterygospidea erosula C. & R. Felder, [1867]; Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (3): 529, pl. 73, f. 3; TL: Celebes
Pterygospidea syrichthus C. & R. Felder, [1867]; Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (3): 530, pl. 72, f. 22-23; TL: Java
Tagiades danae Plötz, 1884; Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 37 (1884): 43
Abaratha saraya Doherty, 1886; J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 55 Pt.II (2): 138; TL: Kumaon, India
Abaratha siamica Swinhoe, 1907; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 20 (119): 432; TL: Shan States, Siam
Caprona syrichthus pelias Fruhstorfer, 1909; Ent. Zs. 23 (31): 139; TL: Tonkin, Than-Moi
Caprona syrichthus pelias Fruhstorfer, 1909; Ent. Zs. 23 (39): 173; TL: Tonkin, Chiem-Hoa; Than-Moi
Caprona erosula (?) pelligera Fruhstorfer, 1909; Ent. Zs. 23 (39): 173; TL: S.Celebes, "Pik von Bonthain"
Caprona mettasuta Fruhstorfer, 1909; Ent. Zs. 22 (42): 173

Abaratha syrichthus; Piepers & Snellen, 1910, Rhop. Java [2]: 11
Caprona erosula; [BOW]: pl. 185, f. 22
Caprona syrichthus; [BOW]: pl. 185, f. 24
Caprona agama agama; Inoue & Kawazoe, 1965, Tyô to Ga 15 (4): 93, f. 51-54; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 64

975x660 (~258Kb) Cambodia, Ratanakiri Province, just upstream Cha Ong Waterfall. 31st May 2013, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Caprona alida (de Nicéville, 1891)

Burma, Siam, S.Vietnam. See [maps]

Abaratha alida de Nicéville, 1891; J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (3): 394, pl. G, f. 40; TL: Tilin Yaw, N.Burma
?Abaratha alida f. mettasuta Fruhstorfer, 1910; Dt. ent. Z. Iris 24 (5): 89

Caprona alida alida, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]

Caprona alida; [BOW]: pl. 185, f. 24 (text)

C. a. alida Burma, Thailand, Laos, N.Vietnam, Hainan, S.China

Caprona elwesii Watson, 1897; J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 10 (4): 674; TL: Bernardmyo
Abaratha parvopunctata Mabille & Boullet, 1917; Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1917 (4): 101; TL: Cochin-China

Caprona alida alida; Inoue & Kawazoe, 1965, Tyô to Ga 15 (4): 94, f. 55-56

1332x1174 (~257Kb) upperside Cambodia, Mondulkiri Province, Sen Monorom, 8th June 2014, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	885x888 (~224Kb) Cambodia, Siem Reap Province, Phnom Kulen Mts, 500-600 m N of Ta Penh village, a brook on a pasture and scrub edges. 10th March 2019, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	1073x1346 (~334Kb) upperside Cambodia, Siem Reap Province, Phnom Kulen Mts, 500-600 m N of Ta Penh village, a brook on a pasture and scrub edges. 10th March 2019, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
1178x902 (~281Kb) underside Cambodia, Siem Reap Province, Phnom Kulen Mts, 500-600 m N of Ta Penh village, a brook on a pasture and scrub edges. 10th March 2019, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	1002x782 (~255Kb) upperside Cambodia, Siem Reap Province, Phnom Kulen Mts, 500-600 m N of Ta Penh village, a brook on a pasture and scrub edges. 10th March 2019, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Caprona ransonnetii (Felder, 1868)

S.India - Igatpuri, Kalka, Assam, Burma, Ceylon. See [maps] Golden Angle

Pterygospidea ransonnetii Felder, 1868; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 18 (1-2): 284
Pterygospidea potiphera Hewitson, 1873; Ill. exot. Butts [5] (Pterygospidea): [118], pl. [59], f. 7; TL: Neilgherries
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Abaratha ransonneti; Moore, [1881], Lepid. Ceylon 1 (4): 182, pl. [67] 97, f. 1
Caprona ransonnetti[sic?]; [BIR], 465
Caprona ransonnetti[sic]; [BOW]: pl. 185, f. 23

Abaratha taylorii de Nicéville, [1884]; J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 52 Pt.II (2/4): 88, pl. 10, f. 13 ♂; TL: Khurda, Orissa

References:

[AfrL] Mark C. Williams
Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); Afrototropical Butterflies; e-mail: Mark C. Williams
[CiNii]
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/
[LAMAS-2005] Gerardo Lamas
Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)
[NHM] Natural History Museum
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index; Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Oleg Kosterin] Institue of Cytology & Genetics
Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/
[Yutaka Inayoshi]
A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM
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Some related literature:

Bethune-Baker, 1911
Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera from Tropical Africa Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 8 (46) : 506-542
[MRS]; Chou, 1994
Monografia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium 1-2: 1-854
de Nicéville, [1884]
On new and little known Rhopalocera from the Indian Region J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 52 Pt.II (2/4) : 65-91, pl. 1, 9-10
de Nicéville, 1891
On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (3) : 341-398, pl. F-G
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
Doherty, 1886
A list of Butterflies taken in Kumaon J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 55 Pt.II (2) : 103-140
Felder, 1868
Diagnose neuer von E. Baron v. Ransonnet in Vorder-Indien gesammelter Lepidopteren Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 18 (1-2) : 281-286
C. & R. Felder, [1867]
Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Behilfen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Band 2. Abtheilung 2. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (1): 1-136, pl. 1-21 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, [1865]), (2): 137-378, pl. 22-47 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, 1865), (3): 379-536, pl. 48-74 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, 1867), (4): 537-548, pl. 75-120, (Inhalts-Verz.) 1-9 (pl. 1-74), (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) , (5): pl. 121-140, (erklärung) 1-10 (pl. 75-107), (Inhalts-Verz.) 1-20 (pl. 108-140), (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Fruhstorfer, 1909
Lepidopterologisches Pêle-Mêle. XIII. Illustrationen interessanter Tagfalter Ent. Zs. 22 (42) : 172-175, f. 1-10 (16 January)
Fruhstorfer, 1909
Neue Hesperiden Ent. Zs. 23 (30): 135-136 (23 October), (31): 138-139 (30 October), (39): 171-174 (25 December)
Fruhstorfer, 1910
Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen Dt. ent. Z. Iris 24 (3): 58 (1 March), (4): 59-74 (1 April), (5): 75-104 (1 May)
Hewitson, 1873
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)
Inoue & Kawazoe, 1965
Hesperiid butterflies from South Vietnam (2) Tyô to Ga 15 (4) : 84-105
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Bethune-Baker in Longstaff, 1916
Butterflies of Southern Kordofan, collected by Captain R. S. Wilson, Lancashire Regiment Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1916 (2) : 269-288
Mabille, 1889
[no title] Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1889 : ix-x,[9-10], : lxxxiv-lxxxv,[84-85], : xcix-c,[99-100], : cxlix-cl,[149-150], : clv-clvi,[155-156], : clxvii-clxix,[167-169], : clxxxiii-clxxxiv,[183-184]
Mabille & Boullet, 1917
Description d'Hespérides nouveaux Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1917 (1): 54-60, (4): 97-101
Moore, [1858]
A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy 1: : 1-278, pl. 1-12,1a,2a,3a,4a,5a,6a
Moore, [1881]
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Lepid. Ceylon 1 (1): 1-40, pl. 1-18 (Dec 1880), (2): 41-80, pl. 19-36 (Jan 1881), (3): 81-136, pl. 37-54 (Jun 1881), (4): 137-190, pl. 55-71 (Dec 1881)
Piepers & Snellen, 1910
The Rhopalocera of Java. Hesperidae Rhop. Java [2] : 1-60, pl. 5-10
Plötz, 1884
Die Hesperiinen-Gruppe der Achlyoden Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 37 (1884) : 1-55
Swinhoe, 1907
New Species of African and Indo-Malayan Hesperiidae Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 20 (119) : 430-436
Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003
The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island faunda Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 3-268, pl. 1-16
Wallengren, 1857
Kafferlandets Dag-fjärilar, insamlade åren 1838-1845 af J. A. Wahlberg / Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in Terra Caffrorum annis 1838-1845 collecta a J. A. Wahlberg K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4) : 1-55
Watson, 1897
Notes on a collection of butterflies from the north Chin Hills and upper Chindwin District, Burma J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 10 (4) : 634-687, pl. A.
[BIR]; Wynter-Blyth, 1957
Butterflies of the Indian Region (1982 Reprint)

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