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 annae hildebrandti
Staudinger, 1885
]
Larsen 1996
: pl. 7, fig. 61 i.
d’ Abrera 1997: 79
(6 figs).
The taxon
C. hildebrandti
, formerly regarded as a separate species, has recently been demoted by
Nazari et al. (2011)
as a subspecies of
C. annae
(Wallengren, 1857)
.
This taxon is not mentioned by
Kielland (1990
, p.58) from the northern highlands.
Ackery et al. (1995)
state that
hildebrandti
occurs in “Dry
Acacia
woodland in northern
Zambia
,
Malawi
,
Tanzania
and central
Kenya
”, to which can be added
Uganda
(
Talbot 1939
, p.222) and southern
Kenya
– and there is a pair of this distinctive species from
Taveta
in the OUMNH. This probably represents the material recorded from
Taveta
by
Rogers (1913
, p.99) using the synonym
Teracolus callidia
Grose-Smith, 1886
. Based on these
Taveta
records, this butterfly could well be a member of the lower slopes fauna, but it is not formally included here. This is probably the butterfly recorded by Aurivillius (1910a, p.11) as
Teracolus annae
Wallengren
from the “Massaisteppe”, below Moshi.