Gnophodes

Gnophodes Doubleday, [1849] Evening Browns

Gnophodes Doubleday, [1849]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): pl. 61, f. 2; TS: Gnophodes parmeno Doubleday
Gnophodes Westwood, [1851]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): 363

Gnophodes (Melanitini); [Wahlberg]; [AfrL]

Gnophodes betsimena (Boisduval, 1833)

-. See [maps] Banded Evening Brown

Cyllo betsimena Boisduval, 1833

Gnophodes betsimena, Lepiforum [LEPIFORUM]

Gnophodes betsimena; [BK]: 263, pl. 28, f. 396; [AfrL]

G. b. betsimena Madagascar

Gnophodes betsimena betsimena; [BAFR], 162; [MadL]; [AfrL]

G. b. parmeno Doubleday, [1849] W.Kenya (W of Rift Valley) - Ethiopia, Uganda, S.Sudan, Zaire, Angola, Cameroun, West Africa

Gnophodes parmeno Doubleday, [1849]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): pl. 61, f. 2

Gnophodes parmeno; [EBW]
Gnophodes betsimena parmeno; [BAFR], 162
Ghophodes betsimena parmeno; [BK]: 263 (note)
Gnophodes betsimena parmeno; [AfrL]

G. b. diversa Butler, 1880 E.Cape - Natal, Mozambique, E.Rhodesia, Malawi, Tanzania, E.Kenya, N.Kenya (Mt. Marsabit)

Gnophodes diversa Butler, 1880; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 5 (28): 333

Gnophodes diversa; [BOW]: pl. 119, f. 2
Gnophodes betsimena diversa; [BAFR], 162; [AfrL]

Gnophodes chelys (Fabricius, 1793)

Sierra Leone - Angola, Tanzania, W.Kenya. See [maps]

Papilio chelys Fabricius, 1793
Gnophodes chelys ♀-f. iris Bartel, 1905; Novit. Zool. 12: 130; TL: Cameroon
Gnophodes chelys var. elucidata Grünberg, 1910; S.B. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berl. 1910 (10): 469; TL: Spanish-Guinea

Gnophodes chelys; [BOW]: pl. 119, f. 1; [BAFR], 162; [BK]: 263, pl. 28, f. 397; [AfrL]

Gnophodes grogani Sharpe, 1901

W.Uganda, E.Zaire (Kivu), Rwanda?, Burundi?. See [maps]

Gnophodes grogani; [BAFR], 162; [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
[BHL] The
Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[Wahlberg]
Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group
[maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

Some related literature:

Bartel, 1905
Neue Aethiopische Rhopalocera des Kgl. Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin Novit. Zool. 12 : 129-152
Butler, 1880
On a collection of Lepidoptera from Madagascar, with descriptions of new Genera and Species Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 5 (28): 333-344, (29): 384-395
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
Doubleday, [1849]; Westwood, [1851]
The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habitats and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus; illustrated with 86 plates by W. C. Hewitson Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): 1-18, pl. A, 1-4 (1-2) (1846), (1): 19-132, pl. 4*, 18*, 5-25, 28 (3-14) (1847), (1): 133-200, pl. 1*, 26, 27, 29 (15-23) (1848), (1): pl. 31-44 (15-23) (1848), (1): 201-242, pl. 30, 45-52, 56-58, 60-62, 64 (24-31) (1849), (1): 243-250 [?], (2): 243-326, pl. 53-55, 63, 65, 66 (32-38) (1850), (2): 327-466, pl. 59, 67-77 (39-50) (1851), (2): 467-534, 143, 144, pl. 78-80 (Index) (51-54) (1852)
Grünberg, 1910
Neue westafrikanische Lepidopteren. Gesammelt von Herrn Gunter Tessman in Sud-Kamerun und Spanisch-Guinea (Uellegebiet) S.B. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berl. 1910 (10) : 469-480
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
[MadL]; Lees, Kremen & Raharitsimba, 2003
Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist in Goodman & Benstead, Nat. Hist. Madagascar : 762-793
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
[EBW]; Smart, 1976
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World Illust. Encyp. Butt. World: -

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