Pyrrhiades anchises (Gerstaecker)
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6788694 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1476B03C-FFE2-1B35-FF13-FB53B989F9CB |
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Felipe |
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Pyrrhiades anchises (Gerstaecker) |
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Pyrrhiades anchises (Gerstaecker) ( Figures 3–12 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 View FIGURE 5 View FIGURE 6 View FIGURE 7 View FIGURE 8 View FIGURE 9 View FIGURE 10 View FIGURE 11 View FIGURE 12 )
The type locality of anchises is usually given as Zanzibar ( Evans 1937; Chiba 2009), based on the title of Gerstaecker’s (1871) “Contribution to the insect fauna of Zanzibar ” (Beitrag zur insektenfauna von Zanzibar). However, this would refer to the Sultanate of Zanzibar, rather the island of Zanzibar, as the localities in Gerstaecker’s work cover a wide area around Zanzibar, including Mombas (= Mombasa). The type locality which Gerstaecker (1871) actually gives for anchises is Lake Jipe (See Jipe) on the Kenya – Tanzania border, east of Mount Kilimanjaro. Carcasson (1981) spelt this species anchyses, but the spelling given above is correct. The nominate subspecies is widespread from South Africa where it is probably not resident ( Henning et al. 1997), throughout eastern Africa to Arabia ( Yemen). It is replaced by subspecies jucunda Butler on the island of Socotra (type locality), Dhofar and northern Oman ( Evans 1937; Larsen 1984; Ackery et al. 1995; Cock 2010a).
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