Zintha

Zintha Eliot, 1973

Zintha hintza (Trimen, 1864)

Cape, South West Africa, Natal, Transvaal, Botswana, E.Africa. See [maps] Blue Pied Pierrot

Lycaena hintza Trimen, 1864; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 2: 177; TL: British Kaffraria; Kaffraria

Misidentified/misapplied:

Lycaena rosimon Fabricius; Wallengren, 1857, K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4): 38
- = ; [NHM card]

Z. h. hintza E.Cape - Rhodesia, Tanzania, Kenya, Zaire?

Castalius hintza hintza; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 211
Zintha hintza hintza; [BAFR], 548; [BK]: 235, pl. 24, f. 336; [AfrL]

Z. h. krooni (Dickson, 1973) South West Africa

Z. h. resplendens (Butler, 1876) Ethiopia

Castalius hintza resplendens; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 211; [BAFR], 549 (text); [NHM card]
Zintha hintza resplendens; [AfrL]

References:

[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
[CEB]
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin; issues (PDF)
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[NHM] Natural History Museum
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index; Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[maps]
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Some related literature:

Butler, 1876
On a Collection of Lepidoptera recently received from Abyssinia Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 18 (108) : 480-490
Dickson, 1973
A new race of Castalius hintza (Trimen) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from South West Africa Ent. Rec. J. Var. 85 (6) : 137-139, pl. 9
[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
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
[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, 1864
Descriptions of some New Species of Butterflies found in Southern Africa Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 2 : 175-180
Wallengren, 1857
Kafferlandets Dag-fjärilar, insamlade åren 1838-1845 af J. A. Wahlberg / Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in Terra Caffrorum annis 1838-1845 collecta a J. A. Wahlberg K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4) : 1-55