Nepheronia thalassina (Boisduval, 1836)
Rhodesia, Transvaal, Swaziland, Zululand, Moçambique, South West Africa, Nigeria. See [maps]Blue VagrantCambridge Vagrant
[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
[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
[maps] Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
Some related literature:
Aurivillius, 1895
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Insektenfaun von Kamerun. 2. Tagfalter
Ent. Tidskr. 16
: 195-220,
: 255-268
Aurivillius, 1907
Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika
Ark. Zool. 3 (19)
: 1-7
Boisduval in Boisduval & Guenée, 1836; Boisduval, 1836
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. Tome Premier
Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lépid. 1
: 1-690, pl. 1-24
Butler, 1870
A revision of the Genera of the Sub-family Pierinae
Cistula ent. 1 (3)
: 33-58, pl. 1-4
[BAFR]; D'Abrera, 1980
Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region: -
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
Donovan, 1824
Naturalist's repository, or monthly miscellany of exotic natural history exhibiting .. specimens of foreign birds, insects, shells, & c.
Nat. Repos.1: 198pp, pl. 1-24,[25] 27,[26] 25,[27] 26,28-36 (1822-1823),
2: 236pp, pl. 37-72 (1823-1824),
3: 104pp, pl. 73-108 (1824-1825),
4: 113pp, pl. 109-144 (1825-1826),
5: 98pp, pl. 145-180 (1826-1827)
Doubleday, 1844
Descriptions of some new Species of Butterflies in the Collection of British Museum
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 14 (93)
: 415-421
[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
Moore, [1881]
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon
Lepid. Ceylon 1
(1): 1-40, pl. 1-18 (Dec 1880),
(2): 41-80, pl. 19-36 (Jan 1881),
(3): 81-136, pl. 37-54 (Jun 1881),
(4): 137-190, pl. 55-71 (Dec 1881)
[EBW]; Smart, 1976
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World
Illust. Encyp. Butt. World: -
Stoneham, 1957
Two new generic names, and new subspecies and forms of Pieridae
Bull. Stoneham Mus. (70)
: 1-3
Suffert, 1904
Neue afrikansche Tagfalter aus dem kön. zool. Museum, Berlin, und meiner Sammlung
Dt. Ent. Z. Iris 17 (1)
: 12-107, pl. 1-3
Trimen, 1864
Descriptions of some New Species of Butterflies found in Southern Africa
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 2
: 175-180
Ward, 1871
Descriptions of new species of African diurnal Lepidoptera
Ent. mon. Mag. 8
: 34-36, 58-60, 81-82, 118-122
Winhard, 2000
Pieridae I
Butterflies of the world 10
: 1-40, pl. title,1-48,back
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