INFORMATIONS DETAILLEES SUR LA DESCRIPTION ET SUR SA CLASSIFICATION
Description
eponina
Auteur
Cramer
Date
1780
Décrit comme
Papilio eponina
Lieu du Type
Localité Type
Sierra Leona
Référence
Pap. Exot. 3: 138, pl. 268, fig. C, D (1780)
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
Synonym
Espèce
serena
Sous-espèce
serena
Sous-genre
Acraea (Actinote)
Clade
I5a
Groupe
serena
Observations et histoire de la classification de la description
Cramer described eponina with reference to two drawings: a male, which is bonasia Fabricius, and a female, which is serena Fabricius. Fabricius (1787) immediately treated the female of eponina as a synonym of his serena, which he had described in 1775. Jones, in his unpublished Icons, presents serena (pl. 37) as well as bonasia (pl. 28), noting the synonymy with eponina in each case. Doubleday (1848) followed this view, but did not, however, distinguish between Cramer’s four figures. Guerin also devoted a long article to the subject in 1849 (and concluded, incidentally, to call the current bonasia eponina)! Mabille (1876, 1886) pointed out Cramer’s error (two distinct species confused); he followed Guérin in that he retained the name eponina for the present-day bonasia (Cramer’s male), and bonasia Fabricius being assimilated to cynthius Drury (which is in fact a female bonasia). Trimen (1862). Trimen (1862), Karsch (1893), and Aurivillius (1893) classify eponina as synonymous with serena and bonasia. However, Butler (1894) believed that serena was in fact a synonym of terpsicore Linné, which he mistakenly called terpsichore (with an “h”). Contrary to all expectations, h ... Voir Texte complet
