INFORMATIONS DETAILLEES SUR LA DESCRIPTION ET SUR SA CLASSIFICATION
Description
epaea
Auteur
Cramer
Date
1779
Décrit comme
Papilio epaea
Lieu du Type
Localité Type
Sierra Leona
Référence
Pap. Exot. 3: 64, pl. 230, fig. B. C.
Titre de la Source
Papillons Exotiques
Publication
Papillons Exotiques des trois parties du Monde: L'Asie, L'Afrique et L'Amerique
Classification proposée aujourd'hui
Classé comme
Species
Espèce
epaea
Sous-espèce
epaea
Sous-genre
Acraea (Acraea)
Clade
II5
Groupe
epaea
Observations et histoire de la classification de la description
In his unpublished Icones, Jones (1787) depicts a black-and-white female of epaea without naming it, but refers to Cramer no. 192. Herbst (1792) classified epaea as a valid species. However, this description was classified as a synonym of gea Fabricius by Godart (1819). Karsch (1893) corrected this view by classifying gea as a synonym of epaea. Aurivillius (1898) classified epaea as a valid species within the genus Planema. Bernaud & Ducarme (2021) distinguish the West African populations associated with epaea from the Central and East African populations associated with paragea Grose-Smith due to the molecular divergence between the two populations.
