Spindasis Change to Cigaritis

[Silverstreak]

Thiam Peng ,

Thank you for the Paper "A review of the African genera of the tribe Aphnaeni (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in Metamorphosis, Supplement 2: 1-60, 1997.".

I have read through the paper 3 times and just cannot find in anyway had Dr. Alan Heath suggested that Spindasis be subsumed into Cigaritis.

..... am I missing something !!??

[Psyche]

Thiam Peng ,

Thank you for the Paper "A review of the African genera of the tribe Aphnaeni (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in Metamorphosis, Supplement 2: 1-60, 1997.".

I have read through the paper 3 times and just cannot find in anyway had Dr. Alan Heath suggested that Spindasis be subsumed into Cigaritis.

..... am I missing something !!??

It is not the 1997 paper but a later one in 2002 according to wilkepedia.

TL Seow

[Silverstreak]

So Andrew V. Z. Brower is wrong in quoting " Heath (1997) included Spindasis within Cigaritis." !

http://tolweb.org/Spindasis/106387


If 2002 then I guess it had to be this one :

HEATH, A., NEWPORT, M.A., & HANCOCK, D. 2002. The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa. i-xvii, 1-137.

All his Afrotropical works:

[teotp]

According to Wikipedia, there are eleven species of Cigaritis listed in Butterflies of Zambia:

1. C. brunnea (Jackson, 1966).
2. C. cynica (Riley, 1921.)
3. C. ella (Hewitson, 1865).
4. C. homeyeri (Dewitz, 1887).
5. C. modestus heathi (D'Abrera, 1980).
6. C. mozambica (Bertoloni, 1850).
7. C. natalensis (Westwood, 1851).
8. C. overlaeti (Bouyer, 1998).
9. C. phanes (Trimen, 1873).
10. C. pinheyi (Heath, 1983).
11. C. trimeni (Neave, 1910).

Teo T P