Etesiolaus

Etesiolaus Stempffer & Bennett, 1959

Etesiolaus Stempffer & Bennett, 1959; Bull. I.F.A.N. (A) 21 (1): 319; TS: Iolaus catori Bethune-Baker
- = Subgenus Etesiolaus (Iolaus); Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 148

Etesiolaus; Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003, Metamorphosis 14 (3): 92; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Etesiolaus (Section Iolaus); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 437
Etesiolaus (Iolaini); [AfrL]

Etesiolaus catori (Bethune-Baker, 1904)

-. See [maps] Cator's Sapphire

Iolaus catori Bethune-Baker, 1904; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 14 (81): 233; TL: Sierra Leone

E. c. catori Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroun

Argiolaus catori catori; Riley, 1928, Novit. zool. 34: 380, pl. 10, 11, f. 10
Etesiolaus catori catori; [BAFR], 511 (text); Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003, Metamorphosis 14 (3): 92; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]
Iolaus (Etesiolaus) catori catori; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 356; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 149

E. c. cottoni (Bethune-Baker, 1908) E.Zaire, Uganda, W.Kenya, NE.Tanzania (Usambara Mts)

Iolaus cottoni Bethune-Baker, 1908; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1908 (1): 113, pl. 9, f. 14; TL: Makala, Beni, Congo Free State

Argiolaus catori cottoni; Riley, 1928, Novit. zool. 34: 380, pl. 10, 11, f. 11
Etesiolaus catori cottoni; [BAFR], 511; Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003, Metamorphosis 14 (3): 93; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]
Iolaus (Etesiolaus) catori cottoni; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 149
Iolaus catori cottoni; [BK]: 197, pl. 18, f. 230
Iolaus cottoni; [CoL]

Etesiolaus kyabobo (Larsen, 1996)

Ghana. See [maps]

Etesiolaus kyabobo; Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003, Metamorphosis 14 (3): 93; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

Etesiolaus pinheyi Kielland, 1986

E.Tanzania. See [maps]

Etesiolaus pinheyi; Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003, Metamorphosis 14 (3): 93; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

References:

[AfrL] Mark C. Williams
Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); Afrototropical Butterflies; e-mail: Mark C. Williams
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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Some related literature:

Bethune-Baker, 1904
On new Species of Rhopalocera from Sierra Leone Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 14 (81) : 222-233
Bethune-Baker, 1908
Descriptions of new Species of Butterflies of the Division Rhopalocera from Africa and from New Guinea Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1908 (1) : 110-126, pl. 8-9
Collins, Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2003
Notes on Afrotropical butterflies with the description of eleven new species and four new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) - ABRI Research Paper No. 3 Metamorphosis 14 (3) : 63-110
[BAFR]; D'Abrera, 1980
Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region: -
Eliot, 1973
The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505 (162fgs), pl. 1-6
Clench in Fox, Lindsey, Clench & Miller, 1965
The Butterflies of Liberia Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19 : 1-438
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
Riley, 1928
Notes on Iolaus, Argiolaus and related genera, with descriptions of new species, subspecies and a new genus Novit. zool. 34 : 374-394, pl. 10-11
Stempffer, 1967
The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10 : 1-322
Stempffer & Bennett, 1959
Révision des genres appartenant au groupe des Iolaus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Bull. I.F.A.N. (A) 20 (4): 1243-1347 (1958), 21 (1): 227-325 (1959)