[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
[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
[LEPIFORUM] Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
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Some related literature:
Bethune-Baker, 1906
Descriptions of some new African Butterflies
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 17 (97)
: 104-110
Butler, 1878
On a Collection of Lepidoptera recently received from Madagascar
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 2 (10)
: 283-297
Butler, 1900
A Revision of the Butterflies of the Genus Zizera represented in the Collection of the British Museum
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900
: 104-111, pl. 11
Chapman, 1910
On Zizeeria Chapman, Zizera Moore. A Group of Lycaenid Butterflies
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 (4)
: 479-497, pl. 51-60
[BAFR]; D'Abrera, 1980
Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region: -
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
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
Clench in Fox, Lindsey, Clench & Miller, 1965
The Butterflies of Liberia
Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19
: 1-438
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history
Butterflies of Kenya
[MadL]; Lees, Kremen & Raharitsimba, 2003
Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist
in Goodman & Benstead, Nat. Hist. Madagascar
: 762-793
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
[EBW]; Smart, 1976
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World
Illust. Encyp. Butt. World: -
Stempffer, 1967
The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)
Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10
: 1-322
Stradomsky, 2016
A molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Polyommatinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1)
: 145-156
Trimen, 1883
Descriptions of twelve new species of South African Lepidoptera Rhopalocera
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1883 (4)
: 347-363
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