Astictopterus

Astictopterus C. & R. Felder, 1860 Fairies

Astictopterus C. & R. Felder, 1860; Wien. ent. Monats. 4 (12): 401; TS: Astictopterus jama C. & R. Felder
Psolos Semper, 1892; Reisen Philipp. (7): 319 (MS name); TS: Tagiades pulligo Mabille
Psolos Watson, 1893; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 (1): 87 (MS name); TS: Tagiades pulligo Mabille

Astictopterus; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Astictopterus (Hesperiinae); Moore, [1881], Lepid. Ceylon 1 (4): 162; [BK], 411; [AfrL]

The African species-group

Astictopterus abjecta (Snellen, 1872)

Sierra Leone - Congo. See [maps]

Leptalina niangarensis Holland, 1920; Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 43 (6): 256, pl. 12, f. 3; TL: Niangara

Astictopterus abjecta; [BOW]: pl. 185, f. 9 (text); [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Astictopterus anomoeus (Plötz, 1879)

Nigeria, Sierra Leone. See [maps]

Apaustus anomoeus Plötz, 1879; Stettin Ent. Ztg 40 (7-9): 358; TL: Aburi

Astictopterus anomaeus; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Astictopterus anomaeus[sic, anomoeus]; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 19
Astictopterus anomoeus; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

Astictopterus bruno (Evans, 1937)

Astictopterus bruno; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

Astictopterus inornatus (Trimen, 1864)

Transkei, Natal (coastal). See [maps]

Cyclopides inornatus Trimen, 1864; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 2: 179

Astictopterus inornatus; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 20; [PBSA]; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Astictopterus punctulata (Butler, 1895)

Ceratrichia[?] punctulata Butler, 1895; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (2): 265

Astictopterus punctulata; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]
Isoteinon punctulata; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
?Isoteinon punctulata;

Astictopterus stellata (Mabille, 1891)

Malawi, Mozambique - Kenya. See [maps] Fairy Spotted Sylph

Ceratrichia stellata Mabille, 1891; Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. 35 (16): lxv; TL: Mombassa
?Astictopterus stellata ?Trimen, 1891

Astictopterus stellata; [AfrL]
Astictopterus stellatus ?Trimen;
?Astictopterus stellatus; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 212

A. s. stellata

Astictopterus stellata stellata; [AfrL]; [BK]: 411, pl. 60, f. 790

A. s. mineni (Trimen, 1894) Rhodesia, Moçambique

Cyclopides mineni Trimen, 1894; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1894: 72, pl. 6, f. 16

Astictopterus stellata mineni; [AfrL]

A. s. amania Evans, 1947

Astictopterus stellata amania; [AfrL]

Astictopterus tura Evans, 1951

Astictopterus tura Evans, 1951; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12) 4: ?1271

Astictopterus tura; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

The Asian species-group

Astictopterus jama C. & R. Felder, 1860

Kumaon - Assam, Burma, Coorg, Sumatra, Malaya. See [maps] Forest Hopper

Astictopterus jama C. & R. Felder, 1860; Wien. ent. Monats. 4 (12): 401; TL: Malaysia [?Malacca]

Astictopterus jama; [BIR], 491 (note); [BOW]: pl. 185, f. 9; [MRS], 721; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

A. j. jama Thailand, Langkawi, Malaysia, Tioman, Aur, Singapore, Sumatra, Java Coon

Tagiades pulligo Mabille, 1876; Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. (5) 6: xxvi; TL: Java
Tagiades pulligo Mabille, 1876; Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (5) 6 (2): 272
Isoteinon melania Plötz, 1885; Berl. ent. Z. 29 (2): 230; TL: Malaysia

Astictopterus jama jama; [BMP]: 351, pl. 54, f. 38-39; [iNaturalist] ; [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Psolos pulligo; Staudinger, 1889, Dt. ent. Z. Iris 2 (1): 147
Sancus pulligo; Piepers & Snellen, 1910, Rhop. Java [2]: 32, pl. 8, f. 47a-b; [BIR], 491

A. j. chinensis (Leech, 1890) Hong Kong, ...

Cyclopides chinensis Leech, 1890; Entomologist 23: 48; TL: Ichang; Chang Yang
Steropes nubilosus Mabille, 1891; Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. 35 (16): lxiv; TL: Hong Kong

Astictopterus jama chinensis; [MRS], 721; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

A. j. olivascens Moore, 1878 Sikkim - Burma, Andamans, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hainan, S.China, Yunnan

Astictopterus olivascens Moore, 1878; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (3): 692; TL: Salween, Burma; Darjeeling
Cyclopides henrici Holland, 1887; Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 14: 124, pl. 2, f. 5; TL: Hainan
Astictopterus kada Swinhoe, 1893; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1893 (3): 328; TL: Assam
Astictopterus olivascens permagnus Fruhstorfer, 1910; Dt. ent. Z. Iris 24 (5): 89; TL: Tonkin, Man-Son, ca. 4000'
Astictopterus henrici tonkinianus Fruhstorfer, 1910; Dt. ent. Z. Iris 24 (5): 90; TL: Mt. Manson, S.Annam
Astictopterus quadripunctatus Swinhoe, 1915; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 16 (93): 177; TL: Assam, Khasia Hills

Astictopterus henrici; [BOW]: pl. 207, f. 12
Astictopterus jama olivascens; Inoue & Kawazoe, 1966, Tyô to Ga 16 (3/4): 84, f. 65-68; [MRS], 721; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Astictopterus olivascens; Piepers & Snellen, 1910, Rhop. Java [2]: 54, pl. 10, f. 80a-b; [BOW]: pl. 207, f. 13

745x710 (~177Kb) underside Cambodia, Siem Reap Province, forest at Banteay Kdel Temple, 22nd February 2017, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Astictopterus fujiananus Chou & Huang, 1994²

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/
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[LAMAS-2005] Gerardo Lamas
Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
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
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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[²] This may require parentheses or not (original genus not verified)

Some related literature:

Butler, 1895
On collections of Lepidoptera from British Central Africa and Lake Tanganyika Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (2) : 250-270, pl. 15-16
[MRS]; Chou, 1994
Monografia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium 1-2 Mon. Rhop. Sinesium : 1-854
[BMP]; Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992
The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Fourth Edition revised by J. N. Eliot with plates by Bernard D'Abrera Butterflies Malay Peninsula (4th edn) : 1-595, pl. 1-69
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
Evans, 1951
Revisional notes on African Hesperiidae Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12) 4 : 1268-1272
C. & R. Felder, 1860
Lepidoptera nova in paeninsula Malayica collecta diagnosibus instructa Wien. ent. Monats. 4 (12) : 394-402
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)
Holland, 1887
Notes upon small collection of Rhopalocera made by Rev. B. C. Henry in the Island of Hainan, together with descriptions of some apparently new species Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 14 : 111-124
Holland, 1920
Lepidoptera of the Congo. Being a Systematic List of the Butterflies and Moths Collected by the American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition Together with Descriptions of Some Hitherto Undescribed Species Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 43 (6) : 109-369, pl. 6-14
Inoue & Kawazoe, 1966
Hesperiid butterflies from South Vietnam (3) Tyô to Ga 16 (3/4) : 84-103
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
Leech, 1890
New species of Lepidoptera from China Entomologist 23 : 26-50, 81-83, : 109-114, : 187-192, pl. 1
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Mabille, 1876
[Hespérides] Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. (5) 6 : ix-xi,[9-11], : xxv-xxvii,[25-27], : liv-lvii,[54-57], : clii-cliii,[152-153], : cxcvii-ccii
Mabille, 1876
Sur la Classification des Hespériens, avec la description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (5) 6 (2) : 251-274
Mabille, 1891
Description d'Hespérides nouvelles (1-3) Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. 35 (16): lix-lxxxviii, (17): cvi-cxxi, (18): clxviii-clxxxvii
Moore, 1878
Descriptions of new Asiatic Hesperidae Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (3) : 686-695, pl. 45
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, 1879
Verzeichniss de vom verstobenen Prof. Dr. R. Bucholtz in West-Africa -- beim Meerbusen von Guinea -- gesammelten Hesperien Stettin Ent. Ztg 40 (7-9) : 353-364
Plötz, 1885
Neue Hesperiden des indischen Archipels und Ost-Africa's aus der Collection des Herrn H. Ribbe in Blasewitz-Dresden, gesammelt von den Herren: C. Ribbe auf Celebes, Java un den Aru-Inseln, Künstler auf Malacca (Perak); Kühn auf West-Guinea (Jekar); Menger auf Ceylon Berl. ent. Z. 29 (2) : 225-232
Semper, 1892
Die Schmetterlinge der Philippinischen Inseln. Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen Reisen Philipp. (1): 1-46, pl. 1-8, A (1886), (2): 47-86, pl. 9-16 (1887), (3): 87-134, pl. 17-24 (1888), (4): 135-174, pl. 25-32 (1889), (5): 175-238, pl. 33-38, B (1890), (6): 239-270, pl. 39-46 (1891), (7): 271-380, pl. 47-49 [iv] (1892), : 381-728
Staudinger, 1889
Lepidoptera der Insel Palawan Dt. ent. Z. Iris 2 (1) : 3-180, pl. 1-2
Swinhoe, 1893
A List of the Lepidoptera of the Khasi Hills. Part I Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1893 (3) : 267-330
Swinhoe, 1915
New Species of Indo-Malayan Lepidoptera Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 16 (93) : 170-186
Trimen, 1864
Descriptions of some New Species of Butterflies found in Southern Africa Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 2 : 175-180
Trimen, 1894
On a collection of Butterflies made in Manica, Tropical Sout-east Africa, by Mr. F. C. Selous, in the year 1892 Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1894 : 14-78, pl. 4-6
Watson, 1893
A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893 (1) : 3-133, pl. 1-3
[BIR]; Wynter-Blyth, 1957
Butterflies of the Indian Region (1982 Reprint)

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