Andronymus Holland , 1896

Cock, Matthew J. W. & Congdon, Colin E., 2013, Observations on the Biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 5. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: Dicotyledon Feeders, Zootaxa 3724 (1), pp. 1-85 : 33

Andronymus Holland, 1896

This is a genus of about ten species, restricted to the Afrotropical Region. Since the treatment in Evans (1937), Usher (1980) revised the five species of what he called the A. caesar complex of species, Larsen (2005) indicated additional adjustments, and new species have since been described ( Congdon & Collins 1998, Larsen & Congdon 2012).

Vuattoux (1999) lists a single food plant record of ‘ Andronymus sp. hero / caesar ’ reared from a caterpillar reared on Cynometra megalophylla (Fabaceae) . The status of the reared adult was uncertain because it was a crumpled female, having failed to emerge and expand its wings properly, but it belonged in the group including A. hero and A. caesar , and most likely was one of these two species.