Katreus dimidia

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Katreinae
Genus: Katreus
Speciesː Katreus dimidia

Note: revised as a junior synonym of Ortholexis melichroptera Karsch, 1895 in Zhang et. al. 2019.

Name

Katreus dimidia Holland, 1896.

Type locality: Africa, Gabon, "Gaboon".

Typusː ♂ "Berlin" per Evans; ZMHU per Bridges, 1994: VIII.65. (Originally stated by Holland to be in the "collection of Straudinger)

Acallopistes dimidia Holland, 1896: 97, Pl.V, Fig.7.
Katreus dimidia (Holland, 1896); Evans, 1937: 17.
Katreus dimidia f. dimidia (Holland, 1896); Evans, 1937: 17; Ackery, et al., 1995: 61.

Also see:

Else

Ortholexis hollandi Druce, 1909: 407. Later distinct as valid per e.g. Cock & Congdon, 2011

Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page.
Bridges, C.A. (1994). Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Urbana, Illinois: Bridges. BHL Reference page.
Druce, H.H., 1909. On some New and Little-known Hesperiidae from Tropical West Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1909: 406–413, Pl.LXVII. Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1–212. Reference page.
Holland, W.J. 1896. A Preliminary Revision and Synonymic Catalogue of the Hesperiidae of Africa and the adjacent Islands, with Descriptions of some apparently new Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896: 2–107. BHL Pls I–V . Reference page.