Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: family Pieridae, subfamily Pierinae
Author
Liseki, Steven D.
Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania; & School of Anthropology and Conservation, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK;
Author
Vane-Wright, Richard I.
School of Anthropology and Conservation, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; & Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK; & Geographical and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
text
Journal of Natural History
2014
2014-04-28
48
25 - 26
1543
1583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2014.886343
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2014.886343
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Colotis halimede australis
(
Talbot, 1939
)
d’ Abrera 1997: 75
(4 figs of other subspp.). SI: Figure 15a–h.
Forewing length: male 24.0–27.0 mm (mean (
n
= 5)
25.52 mm
,
SD
= 0.409); female 23.0–
26.5 mm
(mean (
n
= 5)
24.52 mm
,
SD
= 1.003).
Records.
This subspecies, endemic to
Tanzania
, is described as very local in open bush and semi-desert areas in northern and central areas, east to
Morogoro
(
Kielland 1990
, p.58). Included here as a member of the lower slopes fauna based on several specimens from
Kilimanjaro
, Taveta and Loitokitok in the BMNH, and numerous specimens from Taveta and the “
Tanga
–Moshi railway” in OUMNH. Recorded from Taveta (as
Teracolus leo
) by
Butler (1888
, p.92) and
Rogers (1913
, p.98). More widely, other subspecies of
C. halimede
occur to the north of
Tanzania
, from
Nigeria
to
Libya
, Arabia,
Ethiopia
,
Somalia
and
Kenya
.
Females are polymorphic in ground colour, white, yellow and piebald. The white form “acaste” (SI: Figure 15e) is represented in the BMNH by a very heavily marked specimen from Loitokitok, collected by Jackson in 1905.