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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, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Gnophodes (Melanitini) ; [Wahlberg]; [AfrL]

Gnophodes betsimena (Boisduval, 1833)

-. See [About maps] Banded Evening Brown
Cyllo betsimena Boisduval, 1833
Gnophodes betsimena ; [BK: 263, pl. 28, f. 396]; [AfrL]

Larva on Ehrharta erecta [BK]

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]

Larva on (Grasses) Ehrharta erecta [PBSA]

Gnophodes chelys (Fabricius, 1793)

Sierra Leone - Angola, Tanzania, W.Kenya. See [About maps] Papilio chelys Fabricius, 1793
Gnophodes chelys ♀-f. iris Bartel, 1905; Novit. Zool. 12 : 130, TL: Cameroon
Gnophodes chelys, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Gnophodes chelys ; [BOW: pl. 119, f. 1]; [BAFR, 162]; [BK: 263, pl. 28, f. 397]; [AfrL]

Larva on Setaria? [BK]

Gnophodes grogani Sharpe, 1901

W.Uganda, E.Zaire (Kivu), Rwanda?, Burundi?. See [About maps] Gnophodes grogani ; [BAFR, 162]; [AfrL]

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References:

[About maps]

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[AfrL]

Mark C. Williams; Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); e-mail: Mark C. Williams

[BAFR]

D'Abrera, 1980; Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region

[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!

[BK]

Larsen, Torben B., 1996; The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history

[BOW]

Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[EBW]

Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6

[MadL]

Lees, D.C., Kremen, C. and Raharitsimba, H. 2003; in S.M. Goodman & J. P. Benstead (eds.), The Natural History of Madagascar; Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist: : pp. 762-793; University of Chicago Press. 1709 pp.

[PBSA]

Dickson, C.G.C (ed.), Kroon, D.M.; Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa; AD. DONKER 1978

[Wahlberg]

Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group

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

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*, 5-25, 28 (3-14) (1847), (1): 133-200, pl. 1*, 26, 27, 29, 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)

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