Abantis

Abantis
Abantis venosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Pyrginae
Tribe:	Tagiadini
Genus:	Abantis Hopffer, 1855
Synonyms
Sapaea Plötz, 1879 Abantiades Fairmaire, 1894 (not Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)

Abantis is an Afrotropical genus of skippers.

Species

• Abantis arctomarginata Lathy, 1901
• Abantis bamptoni Collins & Larsen, 1994
• Abantis bicolor (Trimen, 1864)
• Abantis bismarcki Karsch, 1892
• Abantis contigua Evans, 1937
• Abantis efulensis Holland, 1896
• Abantis elegantula (Mabille, 1890)
• Abantis eltringhami Jordan, 1932
• Abantis ja Druce, 1909
• Abantis leucogaster (Mabille, 1890)
• Abantis lucretia Druce, 1909
• Abantis meneliki Berger, 1979
• Abantis meru Evans, 1947
• Abantis nigeriana Butler, 1901
• Abantis paradisea (Butler, 1870)
• Abantis pseudonigeriana Usher, 1984
• Abantis rubra Holland, 1920
• Abantis tanobia Collins & Larsen, 2005
• Abantis tettensis Hopffer, 1855
• Abantis venosa Trimen, 1889
• Abantis vidua Weymer, 1901
• Abantis zambesiaca (Westwood, 1874)

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Abantis at funet
• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 76

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