Cacyreus

Cacyreus Butler, 1897

Cacyreus Butler, 1897; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1897: 845; TS: Papilio lingeus Stoll
Hyreus Hübner, [1819]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (5): 70 (preocc. Hyreus Stephens, 1816 (Aves)); TS: Papilio lingeus Stoll
- = Cacyreus; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 203; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 446

Cacyreus; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Cacyreus (Section Cacyreus); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 446
Cacyreus (Cacyreina); Stradomsky, 2016, Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1): 151
Cacyreus (Lampidini); Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 380
Cacyreus (Lycaenidae); Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 203
Cacyreus (Polyommatini); [BK], 228; [AfrL]; [FE]
Hyreus; [NHM-BMW]

Cacyreus lingeus (Stoll, [1782])

Africa (south of Sahara). See [maps] Common Bush Blue

Papilio lingeus Stoll, [1782]; in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (32-32): 176, pl. 379, f. F, G
Papilio ericus Fabricius, 1793; Ent. Syst. 3 (1): 281
- = Cacyreus lingeus lingeus; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 205
- = ; [AfrL]
Cupido lineus var. ciliaris Aurivillius, 1910; in Sjösted, Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. 2 (9): 9; TL: Meru
- = ; [AfrL]

Cacyreus ericus; [iNaturalist]
Cacyreus lingeus ciliaris; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 205; [CoL]
Cacyreus lingeus lingeus; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 205
Cacyreus lingeus; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 380; [EBW]; [PBSA]; [BOW]: pl. 120, f. 53; [BAFR], 543; [BK]: 229, pl. 23, f. 319; [AfrL]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

Cacyreus virilis Stempffer, 1936

Natal, Swaziland, Transvaal, Rhodesia - C.Africa, E.Africa, SW.Arabia. See [maps] Eastern Bush Blue

Cupido lingeus ab. virilis Aurivillius, 1925; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 13: 463
- = ; [AfrL]

Cacyreus virilis; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 206; [PBSA]; [BAFR], 544; [BK]: 229, pl. 23, f. 320; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

Cacyreus darius (Mabille, 1877)

Madagascar, Comoro Is.. See [maps]

Lycaena darius Mabille, 1877; Bull. Soc. zool. Fr. 2 (3): 216; TL: Congo

Cacyreus darius; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 205; [BAFR], 544; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

Cacyreus audeoudi Stempffer, 1936

Guinea - Uganda, W.Kenya, Tanzania. See [maps] Audeoud's Bush Blue

Cacyreus audeoudi Stempffer, 1936; Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 41 (17): 285

Cacyreus audeoudi; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 381; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 205; [BAFR], 544; [BK]: 229; [AfrL]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Cacyreus ethiopicus Tite, 1961

N.Ethiopia. See [maps]

Cacyreus ethiopicus Tite, 1961; Entomologist 94: 112; TL: 25 km north of Quiha, Ethiopia

Cacyreus ethiopicus; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 205; [BAFR], 544; [AfrL]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Cacyreus tespis (Herbst, 1804)

-. See [maps]

Papilio tespis Herbst, 1804; in Jablonsky, Naturs. Schmett. 11: 270
- = Cacyreus palemon palemon; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 206

Cacyreus tespis; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

C. t. tespis S.Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi Water Geranium Blue

Papilio palemon Stoll, [1782]; in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (32-32): 209, pl. 390, f. C, F (preocc. Papilio palemon Pallas, 1771)
- = ; [AfrL]
Cupido palemon var. fracta Grünberg, 1912; Ergeb. Dt. Z.-Afr. Exped. 3 (Zool. 1): 545
- = ; [AfrL]
Cacyreus palemon f. ecaudata Stempffer, 1950; Revue Fr. Ent. 17: 145
- = ; [AfrL]

Cacyreus fracta fracta; [iNaturalist]
Cacyreus fracta; [iNaturalist]
Cacyreus palemon ecaudata; [CoL]
Cacyreus palemon fracta; [CoL]
Cacyreus palemon palemon; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 206; [BAFR], 544; [BK]: 229, pl. 23, f. 322
Cacyreus palemon; [BOW]: pl. 120, f. 54; [PBSA]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Cacyreus palemon f. ecaudata; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 206
Cacyreus palemon f. fracta; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 206
Cacyreus tespis tespis; [AfrL]

C. t. ghimirra Talbot, 1935 Ethiopia

Cacyreus palemon ghimirra Talbot, 1935; Ent. mon. Mag. 71: 148

Cacyreus fracta ghimirra; [iNaturalist]
Cacyreus palemon ghimirra; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 206; [BAFR], 544; [CoL]
Cacyreus tespis ghimirra; [AfrL]

Cacyreus marshalli Butler, [1898]

Spain, S.France, South Africa. See [maps] Geranium Bronze

Cacyreus marshalli Butler, [1898]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1897: 845, pl. 50, f. 5:Estcourt, 4000ft

Cacyreus marshalli; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 205; [BOW]: pl. 120, f. 54 (text only); [BAFR], 544; [PBSA]; Munguira, García-Barros & Martín, 1997, Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, 21; [AfrL]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [Heiner Ziegler] ; [MBE] ; [SVF]
Caryreus marshalli; [Otakar Kudrna]; [Alfons Dolsa]; [FE]

1053x717 (~157Kb) Lloret de mar, P. Gerona, Catalonia, 3rd June 1997 10:15 am, Photo © Andrew Torry leg.	600x696 (~44Kb) France, Sophia Antipolis, 4.10.2000, Photo © Markku Savela	540x561 (~34Kb) underside France, Sophia Antipolis, 5.10.2000, Photo © Markku Savela
600x435 (~23Kb) underside Morocco, Taroudannt, Souss, Photo © Michel Tarrier	940x636 (~51Kb) France, Provence, Marceille, Avenue de Sakakini, rhododendron bushes. 24th June 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Cacyreus dicksoni Pennington, 1962

Cape. See [maps]

Cacyreus dicksoni Pennington, 1962; J. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 25 (2): 283

Cacyreus dicksoni; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 205; [PBSA]; [BAFR], 544; [AfrL]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Cacyreus niebuhri Larsen, 1982

Yemen. See [maps]

Cacyreus niebuhri Larsen, 1982; Biol. Skr. Kong. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. 23 (3): 43

Cacyreus niebuhri; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

References:

[AJA]
African Journal Archive
[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
[Alfons Dolsa] & Teresa Albarran
Museum of Butterflies of Catalonia
[Andrew Torry]
e-mail: Andrew Torry
[BHL] The
Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[CEB]
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin; issues (PDF)
[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
[FE] Fauna Europaea
Fauna Europaea
[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
[Heiner Ziegler]
Switzerland / Schweiz; www.pieris.ch
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[MBE] Moths and Butteflies of Europe
Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/
[Michel Tarrier]
Michel R. Tarrier; Malaga, Spain; http://www.tarrier.org
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Oleg Kosterin] Institue of Cytology & Genetics
Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/
[PERSEE]
Annales de la Société linnéenne de Lyon; Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon; Publications de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon; Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France
[SVF]
Svenska fjärilar; Naturhistoriska riksmuseet; (Sweden)
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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Some related literature:

Aurivillius, 1925
Die Gross-Schmetteringe der Erde; 13 Band; Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 13 : 1-613, pl. 1-80
Aurivillius, 1910
Lepidoptera in Sjösted, Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. 2 (9) : 1-56, pl. 1-2
Butler, 1897; Butler, [1898]
On three consignmenets of Butterflies collected in Natal in 1896 and 1897 by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1897 : 835-857, pl. 50
[BAFR]; D'Abrera, 1980
Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region: -
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
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
Fabricius, 1793
Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Ent. Syst. 3 (1) : 1-487
Clench in Fox, Lindsey, Clench & Miller, 1965
The Butterflies of Liberia Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19 : 1-438
Grünberg, 1912
Rhopalocera in Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1907-1908 Ergeb. Dt. Z.-Afr. Exped. 3 (Zool. 1) : 505-560
Herbst, 1804
Natursystem aller bekannten in- und auslandischen Insekten als eine Fortsetzun der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte in Jablonsky, Naturs. Schmett. 11 : 1-392
Hübner, [1819]
Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, 1816-[1826] Verz. bek. Schmett. (1): [1-3], 4-16 (1816), (2): 17-32 (1819), (3): 33-48 (1819), (4): 49-64 (1819), (5): 65-80 (1819), (6): 81-96 (1819), (7): 97-112 (1819), (8): 113-128 (1819), (9): 129-144 (1819), (10): 145-160 (1819), (11): 161-176 (1819), (12): 177-192 (1820), (13): 193-208 (1820), (14): 209-224 (1821), (15): 225-240 (1821), (16): 241-256 (1821), (17): 257-272 (1823), (18): 273-288 (1823), (19): 289-304 (1823), (20): 305-320 (1825), (21): 321-336 (1825), (22): 337-352 (1825), (23-27): 353-431 ([1825])
Larsen, 1982
The butterflies of the Yemen Arab Republic (with a review of the species in the Charaxes viola-group from Arabia and East Africa) Biol. Skr. Kong. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. 23 (3) : 1-85
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
[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
Mabille, 1877
Catalogue des Lépidoptères du Congo. [1] Bull. Soc. zool. Fr. 2 (3) : 214-240
Munguira, García-Barros & Martín, 1997
Plantas nutricias de los licénidos y satirinos españoles (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae y Nymphalidae) Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, 21 : 29-53
Pennington, 1962
Descriptions of a new Neptis, new Lycaenidae, and records of rare species and additions to the list of Southern African Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera) J. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 25 (2) : 266-286
[EBW]; Smart, 1976
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World Illust. Encyp. Butt. World: -
Stempffer, 1936
Contribution a l'etude des Lycaenidae ethiopiens Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 41 (17) : 283-285
Stempffer, 1950
Contribution a l'etude des Lycaenidae de la faune ethiopienne Revue Fr. Ent. 17 : 135-149
Stempffer, 1967
The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10 : 1-322
Stoll, [1782]
Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques) in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (26b-28): 29-90, pl. 305-336 (1780), (29-31): 91-164, pl. 337-372 (1781), (32-32): 165-252, 1-29, pl. 373-400 (1782)
Stradomsky, 2016
A molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Polyommatinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1) : 145-156
Talbot, 1935
New species and forms of African Lycaenidae Ent. mon. Mag. 71 : 69-78, : 115-127, : 147-153
Tite, 1961
A new Species of the Genus Cacyreus (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) Entomologist 94 : 112-113

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