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
1464-5262
5193830
[
Pontia distorta
(Butler, 1886)
]
Larsen 1996
: pl. 9, figs 88 i.
d’ Abrera 1997: 101
(3 figs).
Records.
According to
Kielland (1990
, p.63), this very small species (fwl
12–20 mm
) occurs in “North-eastern
Tanzania
”. Otherwise this butterfly is only known from very dry areas in
Ethiopia
,
Somalia
and
Kenya
(Kulal area, Kerio Valle, Archer’ s Post (
Samburu
), Athi River, Lake
Baringo
?).
Larsen (1996
, p.143) doubts that
distorta
occurs in
Tanzania
, the confusion apparently arising due to BMNH specimens labelled “Namanga” (
F.C. Selous
,
17.ii.1916
) which, according to N.D. Riley, most probably came from Lake Baringo, not
Tanzania
. There is nothing to link this butterfly with the
Kilimanjaro
massif.