Pseudacraea boisduvali; [BOW]: pl. 106, f. 7; [BK]: 321, pl. 44, f. 544; Hecq, 2003, Butterflies of the world 16: 2, pl. 8, f. 9-10, pl. 9, f. 1-10, pl. 10, f. 1-2
[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
[HBN] Francis Hemming, 1937
HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2
[LAMAS-2005] Gerardo Lamas
Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)
[LAMAS-NEO] Gerardo Lamas
Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)
[LEPIFORUM] Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
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Aurivillius, 1891
Verzeichniss einer vom Herrn Fritz Theorin aus Gabun und dem Gebiete des Camerunflusses heimgebrachten Schmetterlings-sammlung
Ent. Tidskr. 12
: 193-228, pl. 1-3
Aurivillius, 1892
Verzeichniss einer vom Herrn Fritz Theorin aus Gabun und dem Gebiete des Camerunflusses heimgebrachten Schmetterlilngssammlung
Ent. Tidskr. 13
: 181-200
Aurivillius, 1894
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfaun von Kamerun. 2. Tagfalter
Ent. Tidskr. 15
: 273-314
Aurivillius, 1898
Rhopalocera Aethiopica. Die tagfalter des Aethiopischen Faunegebietes
K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 31 (5)
: 1-561, pl. 1-6
Aurivillius, 1903
Verzeichnis einer Schmetterlingssamlung aus dem Katanga-Gebiete im südwestlichen Theile des Congostaates
Ark. Zool. 1
: 245-254
Aurivillius, 1912
Die Gross-Schmetteringe der Erde; 13 Band; Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter
in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 13
: 1-613, pl. 1-80
Bartel, 1905
Neue Aethiopische Rhopalocera des Kgl. Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin
Novit. Zool. 12
: 129-152
Bernardi, 1965
L'interprétation du polymorphisme géographique de Pseudacraea lucretia Cramer [Lep. Nymphalidae]
Bull. I.F.A.N. (A) 27
: 759-762
Butler, 1873
Description of a new Species of Pseudacraea in the Rev. Mr. Cornthwaite's Collection
Cist. Ent. 1 (6)
: 125
Butler, 1874
Descriptions of new African Lepidoptera
Cistula ent. 1 (8)
: 209-214,[215-217] (misnumbered pages)
Butler, 1874
Notes on a collection of butterflies recently brought from Cape Coast, West Africa, with description of a new species from Natal
Ent. mon. Mag. 11
: 57-58
Butler, 1874
Description of six new Species of diurnal Lepidoptera in the Collection of the British Museum
Ent. mon. Mag. 11
: 163-164
Butler, 1874
Descriptions of some new species and a new genus of diurnal Lepidoptera in the collection of Herbert Druce Esq.
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1874 (4)
: 423-436, pl. 6
Butler, 1878
Descriptions of several new Species of Lepidoptera in the Collection of the British Museum
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 2 (8)
: 177-179
Butler, 1879
On a Collection of Lepidoptera from the Island of Johanna
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 3 (15)
: 186-192
Butler, 1880
On a collection of Lepidoptera from Madagascar, with descriptions of new Genera and Species
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 5
(28): 333-344,
(29): 384-395
Butler, 1884
Description of a new Species of Pseudacraea from Natal
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 14 (80)
: 123
Butler, 1892
On a new and also on a little-known species of Pseudacraea in the collection of the Hon. Walter Rothschild
Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1892 (3)
: 201-202
Butler, 1896
On a small Collection of Lepidoptera sent from Nyasa in 1895 by Mr. R. Crawshay
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 18 (103)
: 67-75
Capronnier, 1889
Liste d'Une Collection de Lépidoptères recueillis au Gabon ace la description de quatre espèces nouvelles
Bull. Ent. Soc. Belg. 33
: cxli-cxlvii
Carpenter, 1920
Pseudacraea eurytus hobleyi, its forms and its models on the islands of L. Victoria, and the bearing of the facts on the expanation of mimicry by Natural Selection
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1920
: 84-98, pl. 2-3
Carpenter, 1923
Pseudacraea eurytus and its models in eastern Uganda
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1923
: 469-491
Carpenter, 1930
A new form of Pseudacraea eurytus
Proc. ent. Soc. Lond. 5
: 52-55
Carpenter, 1935
A new Bematistes-Pseudacraea combination from Ugandan butterflies
Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 10
: 57-59
Carpenter, 1949
Pseudacraea eurytus (L.) (Lep. Nymphalidae): A study of a polymorphic mimic in various degrees of speciation
Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 100
: 71-133
Carpenter & Jackson, 1950
New butterflies from East Africa and the Ituri forest
Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 19 (7-8)
: 97-108
Collins, 1991
Some new Pseudacraea from west Madagascar and Comodo[sic] islands (Rhopalocera Nymphalidae)
Lambillionea 91 (3)
: 257-260
Cramer, [1775]
Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques)
Uitl. Kapellen 1
(1-7): 1-132, pl. 1-84 (1775),
(8): 133-155, pl. 85-96 (1776)
Cramer, [1779]
Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques)
Uitl. Kapellen 3
(17-21): 1-104, pl. 193-252 (1779),
(22): 105-128, pl. 253-264 ([1780]),
(23-24): 129-176, pl. 265-288 (1780)
[BAFR]; D'Abrera, 1980
Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region: -
Dewitz, 1879
Afrikanische Tagschmetterlinge
Nova Acta Leop. Carol. (2) 41 (2)
: 173-210, [1-38], pl. 25-26, [1-2]
Dewitz, 1884
Drei neue westafrikanische Tagschmetterlinge
Berl. ent. Z. 28 (1)
: 187-188
Dhungel & Wahlberg, 2018
Molecular systematics of the subfamily Limenitidinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
PeerJ 6 (4311)
: 1-41 (paragraphs)
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
Doubleday, 1845
Descriptions of new or imperfectly described Diurnal Lepidoptera
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (1) 16
(104): 176-182,
(105): 232-236,
(106): 304-308
Westwood, [1850]
The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habitats and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus; illustrated with 86 plates by W. C. Hewitson
Gen. diurn. Lep.
(1): 1-18, pl. A, 1-4 (1-2) (1846),
(1): 19-132, pl. 4*, 18*, 5-25, 28 (3-14) (1847),
(1): 133-200, pl. 1*, 26, 27, 29 (15-23) (1848),
(1): pl. 31-44 (15-23) (1848),
(1): 201-242, pl. 30, 45-52, 56-58, 60-62, 64 (24-31) (1849),
(1): 243-250 [?],
(2): 243-326, pl. 53-55, 63, 65, 66 (32-38) (1850),
(2): 327-466, pl. 59, 67-77 (39-50) (1851),
(2): 467-534, 143, 144, pl. 78-80 (Index) (51-54) (1852)
Drury, 1782
Illustrations of natural history; wherein are exhibited ...
Illust. Nat. Hist. Exot. Insects 3
: 1-79 (1837),
: pl. 1-50
Eltringham, 1929
African Rhopalocera: Descriptions and notes
Trans. R. ent. Soc. 77
: 475-505, pl. 30-31
Felder, 1861
Ein neues Lepidopteron aus der Familie der Nymphaliden und seine Stellnung im natürlichen System, begründet aus der Synopse der rigen
Nov. Act. Leop. Carol. 28 (3)
: 1-50, pl. 1
C. & R. Felder, [1867]
Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Behilfen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Band 2. Abtheilung 2. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera
Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2)
(1): 1-136, pl. 1-21 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, [1865]),
(2): 137-378, pl. 22-47 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, 1865),
(3): 379-536, pl. 48-74 (Rhop.) (C. & R. Felder, 1867),
(4): 537-548, pl. 75-120, (Inhalts-Verz.) 1-9 (pl. 1-74), (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) ,
(5): pl. 121-140, (erklärung) 1-10 (pl. 75-107), (Inhalts-Verz.) 1-20 (pl. 108-140), (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Fruhstorfer, 1903
Zwei neue Pseudacraea aus Afrika
Dt. ent. Z. Iris 16 (1)
: 9-10, pl. 1, f. 7 (early October)
Grose-Smith, 1889
Descriptions of twenty-four new Species of Butterflies captured by Mr. Last in the neighbourhood of Mombasa, East Coast of Africa, in the Collection of Mr. H. Grose Smith
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 3 (14)
: 121-137
Grünberg, 1910
Zur Kenntnis der Lepidopteren-Fauna der Sesse-Inseln im Victoria-Nyanza
S.B. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berl. 1910 (4)
: 146-181
Grünberg, 1912
Rhopalocera in Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1907-1908
Ergeb. Dt. Z.-Afr. Exped. 3 (Zool. 1)
: 505-560
Guenée, 1865
Lépidoptéres de Madagascar. In Vinson. Voyage a Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II.
in Vinson, Voy. Madagascar, Annexe F
: 25-48
Hall, 1919
Descriptions of twelve new Nymphaline butterflies
Entomologist 52
: 195-200
Hecq, 1987
Nymphalides rares du Zaire et au Rwanda
Lambillionea 87 (5-6)
: 73-74
Hecq, 1990
Une nouvelle sous-espece de Pseudacraea au Zaire
Lambillionea 90
: 28-29
Hecq, 1992
Nouvelle forme de Pseudacraea
Lambillionea 92
: 46
Hecq, 2003
Nymphalidae VII, PseudacraeaButterflies of the world 16: 3pp, 12pls
Herbst, 1798
Natursystem aller bekannten in- und auslandischen Insekten als eine Fortsetzun der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte
in Jablonsky, Naturs. Schmett. 9
: 1-206, pl. 231-260
Hewitson, 1865; Hewitson, 1868
Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson
Ill. exot. Butts [3]
: (Systematic Index) III,
(Callithea): [1-2], pl. [1] (1857),
(Callithea Agrias II): [3-4], pl. [2] (1870),
(Epicalia & Myscelia I): [5-6], pl. [3] (1851),
(Epicalia II): [7-8], pl. [4] (1852),
(Timetes): [9-10], pl. [5] (1852),
(Neptis): [11-12], pl. [6] (1868),
(Limenitis I-II): [13-16], pl. [7-8] (1859),
(Heterochroa): [17-18], pl. [9] (1867),
(Diadema): [19-20], pl. [10] (1863),
(Diadema II): [21-22], pl. [11] (1865),
(Diadema III): [23-24], pl. [12] (1868),
(Amechania): [25-26], pl. [13] (1861),
(Romaleosoma): [27-28], pl. [14] (1864),
(Romaleosoma II-III): [29-32], pl. [15-16] (1865),
(Romaleosoma IV): [33-34], pl. [17] (1866),
(Euryphene): [35-36], pl. [18] (1864),
(Euryphene II): [37-38], pl. [19] (1865),
(Euryphene III Aterica): [39-40], pl. [20] (1865),
(Euryphene IV): [41-42], pl. [21] (1865),
(Aterica & Euryphene V-VI): [43-46], pl. [22-23] (1866),
(Euryphene VII): [47-48], pl. [24] (1871),
(Euryphene VIII & Aterica): [49-50], pl. [25] (1871),
(Euryphene IX): [51-52], pl. [26] (1874),
(Aterica & Harma): [53-54], pl. [27] (1866),
(Harma): [55-56], pl. [28] (1864),
(Harma II): [57-58], pl. [29] (1866),
(Harma III-IV): [59-60], pl. [30-31] (1869),
(Harma V-VI & Euryphene X): [61-62], pl. [32-33] (1874),
(Adolias): [63-64], pl. [34] (1861),
(Adolias II): [65-66], pl. [35] (1862),
(Adolias III): [67-68], pl. [36] (1863),
(Adolias IV): [69-70], pl. [37] (1875),
(Agrias): [71-72], pl. [38] (1860),
(Agrias & Nymphalis): [73-74], pl. [39] (1855),
(Agrias & Siderone): [75-76], pl. [40] (1854),
(Prepona): [77-78], pl. [41] (1859),
(Prepona II & Agrias): [79-80], pl. [42] (1876),
(Pandora & Prepona): [81-82], pl. [43] (1854),
(Apatura): [83-84], pl. [44] (1869),
(Nymphalis): [85-86], pl. [45] (1854),
(Nymphalis II): [87-88], pl. [46] (1859),
(Charaxes III): [89-90], pl. [47] (1863),
(Charaxes IV): [91-92], pl. [48] (1874),
(Charaxes V): [93-94], pl. [49] (1876),
(Paphia II): [95-96], pl. [50] (1869),
(Paphia & Siderone): [97-98], pl. [51] (1856),
(Siderone): [99-100], pl. [52] (1860),
(Zeuxidia & Aemona): [101-102], pl. [53] (1868),
: iv
Hewitson, 1872
Descriptions of seven new exotic Rhopalocera
Ent. mon. Mag. 9
: 83-86
Jackson, 1951
Notes on some new or rare Rhopalocera from eastern Africa
Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 20
(7-8): 91-96, pl. 1,
(9-10): 97-105, pl. 1
Jackson, 1956
Notes on the Rhopalocera of the Kigezi District of Uganda with descriptions of new species and subspecies
J. E Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 23 (1)
: 63-102, pl. 1-13
Jackson & Howarth, 1957
Diestogyna butleri Aurivillius (Lep.: Nymphalidae) and corrections to an earlier paper
Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 26 (5-6)
: 99-102
Joicey & Talbot, 1927
Four new butterflies from the island of St. Principe
Entomologist 60: 12-16
Jordan, 1911
Two new African Butterflies
Novit. zool. 18 (1)
: 137-138
Karsch, 1897
Neue Eingänge deutsch-ostafrikanischer Insecten in Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin
Ent. Nachr. 23
: 266-372
Knoop, 1988
A new species of Pseudacraea from south eastern Nigeria (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae)
Lambillionea 88 (3-4)
: 47-49
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history
Butterflies of Kenya
Lathy, 1906
A Contribution towards the knowledge of African Rhopalocera
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1906 (1)
: 1-10, pl. 1-2
[MadL]; Lees, Kremen & Raharitsimba, 2003
Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist
in Goodman & Benstead, Nat. Hist. Madagascar
: 762-793
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Linnaeus, 1758
Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Clases, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Symonymis, Locis. Tomis I. 10th Edition
Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1
: 1-338,
: 339-824
Mabille, 1890
Voyage de M. Ch. Allaud dans le territoire d'Assinie (Afrique occidentale) en juillet et aout 1886. Lépidoptéres avec des notes sur quelques autres espéces d'Afrique
Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (6) 10 (1)
: 17-51, pl. 2-3
Neave, 1904
On a large collection of Rhopalocera from the shores of the Victoria Nyanza
Novit. Zool. 11
: 323-363
Neave, 1912
A new species of Pseudacraea from Nyasaland
Ent. mon. Mag. 48
: 228-229
Neustetter, 1928
Eine neue afrikanische Nymphalide
Int. ent. Zs. 21
: 445-446
Oberthür, 1890
Lépidoptères des iles Comores
Étud. d'Ent. 13
: 7-15, pl. 1-5
Poulton, 1918
A new form of Pseudacraea poggei, Dew., mimicking the dorippus, Klug, form of Danaida chrysippus, L., in ex-German East Africa
Proc. ent. Soc. Lond. 1918
: v-xxii
Richelmann, 1913
Einige neue afrikanische Tagfalter
Int. Ent. Zs. 7 (16)
: 105-106
Riley, 1932
New African and Arabian butterflies
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 10
: 137-152
Saalmüller, 1878
Mittheilungen über Madagaskar; seine Lepidoptera-Fauna mit besonderen Berücksichtigung der dieser angehörigen, im Senckenbergischen Museum befindlichen Arten
Bericht. Senckenb. naturf. Ges. 1877-1878
: 71-96 (1978)
Schultze, 1906
Eine neue Pseudacraea aus Kamerun
Insekten-Börse 23
: 174
Sharpe, 1896
List of Lepidoptera obtained by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his recent Expedition to Lake Rudolf
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1896
: 530-537
[EBW]; Smart, 1976
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World
Illust. Encyp. Butt. World: -
van Son, 1979
The butterflies of southern Africa 4. Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae
Trans. Mus. Mem. 22: 1-286
Staudinger, 1890
Bemerkungen zu den Tafeln III und IV
Dt. ent. Z. Iris 3 (2)
: 337-338, pl. 3-4
Staudinger, 1891
Neue exotische Lepidopteren
Dt. Ent. Z. Iris, 4 (1)
: 61-157, pl. 1-2
Stoll, [1790]
Aanhangsel van het Werk, de Uitlandsche Kapellen
Aanhangsel Werk, Uitl. Kapellen
(1): 1-42, pl. 1-8 (1787),
(2-5): 43-184, pl. 9-42 (1790)
Stoneham, 1965
New subspecies and forms of African Lepidoptera
Bull. Stoneham Mus. (81): 1-3
Strand, 1911
Neue Gross-Schmetterlinge aus Abyssinien. Gesammelt von Herrn A. Kostlan
Ent. Rundsch. 28
: 137-141
Strand, 1914
Lepidoptera aus Kamerun gesammelt von Herrn Leutnant von Rothkirch un Panthen
Arch. Naturgesch. 80 A (2)
: 139-161
Talbot, 1941
Notes on the genus Amauris (Lep., Danaidae) with descriptions of four new forms, and description of a new subspecies of Pseudacraea deludens Neave (Nymphalidae) resembling A. echeria contracta Talbot
Ent. mon. Mag. 77
: 210-216
Talbot, 1943
New forms of African butterflies
Entomologist 76
: 165-167
Thurau, 1903
Neue Lepidopteren aus Ost- und Central-Afrika, im Königl. zoologischen Museum zu Berlin
Berl. ent. Z. 48
: 301-314
Trimen, 1868
On some undescribed Species of South Africa Butterflies, including a new Genus of Lycaenidae
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1868 (1)
: 69-96, pl. 5-6
Trimen, 1873
On some new species of Butterflies discovered in Extra-Tropical Southern Africa
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1873 (2)
: 101-124, pl. 1
Trimen, 1887
South-African Butterflies: a monograph of the extra-tropical species. Vol. 1
South-African Butts 1
: 1-350, pl. A, 1-6
Trimen, 1909
Description of new forms of British East African butterflies in the Hope Department, Oxford University Museum, chiefly collected by the Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers, M.A., F.E.S.
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1908 (3)
: 547-556
Westwood, 1837
Illustrations of exotic entomology
Ill. Exot. Ent. 3
: 1-93, pl. 1-50
Weymer, 1907
Exotische Lepidopteren
Dt. ent. Z. Iris 20 (1,2)
: 1-51, pl. 1-2
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