Genus Anthene Doubleday, 1847

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anthene Doubleday, E. 1847. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Part 2 57 pp. [27].

  Type species:

   Papilio larydas Cramer, 1780 by subsequent designation, see Hemming, F. 1935. Note on the genotypes of three genera of Rhopalocera represented in the fauna of Abyssinia. 374 (App. 1), 434-436 in Carpenter, G.D.H. The Rhopalocera of Abyssinia a faunistic study. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 83: 313-447 [435].
• Lycaenesthes Moore, F. 1866. On the lepidopterous insects of Bengal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865(3): 755-823 [issued 1866, dated 1865] [773].

  Type species:

   Lycaenesthes bengalensis Moore, 1866 by monotypy (bengalensis Moore = emolus Godart).
• Pseudoliptena Stempffer, H. 1946. Contribution à l'étude des Lycaenidae de la faune éthiopienne. Revue Française d'Entomologie 13 1(9): 8-19 [Date published 30 June 1946] [8 pl. 1 fig. 12].

  Type species:

   Pseudoliptena bitje Stempffer, 1946 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hemming, F. 1935. Note on the genotypes of three genera of Rhopalocera represented in the fauna of Abyssinia. 374 (App. 1), 434-436 in Carpenter, G.D.H. The Rhopalocera of Abyssinia a faunistic study. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 83: 313-447 [436] (synonymy reference for Anthene and Lycaenesthes)
• Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [383] (for synonymy of Anthene and Pseudoliptena)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
  • Kei Islands
  • Maluku
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

General References

Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.L. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: an annotated catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. East Melbourne : CSIRO Publications xi 803 pp. [Date published 31 December 1995] [620]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [524]

Corbet, A.S. & Pendlebury, H.M. 1992. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Malayan Nature Society 595 pp. 69 pls. [260]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [413]

Tite, G.E. 1966. A revision of the genus Anthene from the Oriental region (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 18: 253-275 [Date published 21 Sept. 1966] [255-275] (revision of Anthene)

 

History of changes

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28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
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