Etesiolaus

Etesiolaus Stempffer & Bennett, 1959

Etesiolaus Stempffer & Bennett, 1959; Bull. I.F.A.N. (A) 21 (1): 319; TS: Iolaus catori Bethune-Baker
- = Iolaus (Etesiolaus) ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 148

Etesiolaus (Lycaenidae); [NHM card]
Etesiolaus (Section Iolaus); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 437
Etesiolaus; Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003, Metamorphosis 14 (3): 92
Etesiolaus (Iolaini); [AfrL]

Etesiolaus catori (Bethune-Baker, 1904)

-. See [maps] Cator's Sapphire

Iolaus catori Bethune-Baker, 1904; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 14 (81): 233; TL: Sierra Leone

E. c. catori Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroun

Iolaus (Etesiolaus) catori catori; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 356; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 149
Argiolaus catori catori; Riley, 1928, Novit. zool. 34: 380, pl. 10, 11, f. 10
Etesiolaus catori catori; [BAFR], 511 (text); Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003, Metamorphosis 14 (3): 92; [AfrL]

E. c. cottoni (Bethune-Baker, 1908) E.Zaire, Uganda, W.Kenya, NE.Tanzania (Usambara Mts)

Iolaus cottoni Bethune-Baker, 1908; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1908 (1): 113, pl. 9, f. 14; TL: Makala, Beni, Congo Free State

Iolaus (Etesiolaus) catori cottoni; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 149
Iolaus cottoni; [NHM card]
Argiolaus catori cottoni; Riley, 1928, Novit. zool. 34: 380, pl. 10, 11, f. 11
Iolaus catori cottoni; [BK]: 197, pl. 18, f. 230
Etesiolaus catori cottoni; [BAFR], 511; Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003, Metamorphosis 14 (3): 93; [AfrL]

Etesiolaus kyabobo (Larsen, 1996)

Ghana. See [maps]

Etesiolaus kyabobo; Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003, Metamorphosis 14 (3): 93; [AfrL]

Etesiolaus pinheyi Kielland, 1986

E.Tanzania. See [maps]

Etesiolaus pinheyi; Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003, Metamorphosis 14 (3): 93; [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
[NHM] Natural History Museum
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index; Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
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Some related literature:

Bethune-Baker, 1904
On new Species of Rhopalocera from Sierra Leone Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 14 (81) : 222-233
Bethune-Baker, 1908
Descriptions of new Species of Butterflies of the Division Rhopalocera from Africa and from New Guinea Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1908 (1) : 110-126, pl. 8-9
Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003
Notes on Afrotropical butterflies with the description of eleven new species and four new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) - ABRI Research Paper No. 3 Metamorphosis 14 (3) : 63-110
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
Clench in Fox, Lindsey, Clench & Miller, 1965
The Butterflies of Liberia Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19 : 1-438
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
Riley, 1928
Notes on Iolaus, Argiolaus and related genera, with descriptions of new species, subspecies and a new genus Novit. zool. 34 : 374-394, pl. 10-11
Stempffer, 1967
The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10 : 1-322
Stempffer & Bennett, 1959
Révision des genres appartenant au groupe des Iolaus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Bull. I.F.A.N. (A) 20 (4): 1243-1347 (1958), 21 (1): 227-325 (1959)