Coeliades

Coeliades Hübner, 1818 Policemen

Coeliades Hübner, 1818; Zuträge Samml. exot. Schmett. 1: 31; TS: Papilio forestan Stoll
Rhopalocampta Wallengren, 1857; K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4): 47; TS: Papilio forestan Stoll

Coeliades; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 591; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Coeliades (Coeliadinae); [BK], 388; [AfrL]
Rhopalocampta; [NHM-BMW]

Coeliades aeschylus (Plötz, 1884)

Coeliades aeschylus; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Coeliades anchises (Gerstaecker, 1871)

Natal, Rhodesia, Tanzania, Mozambique - Somalia, Ethiopia. See [maps]

Ismene anchises Gerstaecker, 1871; Archiv Naturg. 37 (1): 358
Ismene taranis Hewitson, 1876; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 18 (106): 347; TL: Zanzibar

Coeliades anchises; [PBSA]; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Coliades[sic] anchises; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 57

C. a. anchises One Pip Policeman

Coeliades anchises anchises; [BK]: 389, pl. 57, f. 722; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

C. a. jucunda (Butler, 1881) Socotra

Coeliades anchises jucunda; [AfrL]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Coeliades jucunda; ; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Coliades[sic] jucunda; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 57 (text)

Coeliades bixana Evans, 1940

Coeliades bixana Evans, 1940; J. N.Y. ent. Soc. 48 (4): 411

Coeliades bixana; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

Coeliades bocagii (Sharpe, 1893)

Coeliades bocagii; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Coeliades chalybe (Westwood, 1852)

Senegal - Uganda, W.Keneya, NW.Tanzania. See [maps] Blue Policeman

Ismene chalybe Westwood, 1852; Gen. diurn. Lep. (2): pl. 79, f. 2

Coeliades chalybe; [BK]: 388, pl. 57, f. 720; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Coliades[sic] chalybe; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 59

C. c. chalybe

Coeliades chalybe chalybe; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

C. c. immaculata Carpenter, 1935

Coeliades chalybe immaculata; [AfrL]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Coeliades ernesti (Grandidier, 1867)

Madagascar. See [maps]

Hesperia ernesti Grandidier, 1867; ; TL: Morondava
Ismene pansa Hewitson, 1867; Ill. exot. Butts [5] (Ismene I-II): [85], pl. [43], f. 1-2; TL: Madagascar

Coeliades ernesti; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL]
Coeliades pansa; [iNaturalist]

Coeliades fervida (Butler, 1880)

Madagascar. See [maps]

Hesperia fervida Butler, 1880; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 5 (28): 339; TL: Fianarantsoa, Madagascar

Coeliades fervida; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Coliades[sic] fervida; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 60

Coeliades fidia Evans, 1937

Madagascar. See [maps]

Coeliades fidia Evans, 1937; ; TL: Maevatana

Coeliades fidia; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Coliades[sic] fidia; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 60 (text)

Coeliades forestan (Stoll, [1782])

Transkei - Rhodesia - Botswana. See [maps]

Papilio forestan Stoll, [1782]; in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (32-32): 210, pl. 391, f. E, F

Coeliades forestan; [PBSA]; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Coliades[sic] forestan; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 61

C. f. forestan Striped Policeman

Coeliades forestan forestan; [BK]: 389, pl. 57, f. 723; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

C. f. arbogastes (Guenee, 1863) Madagascar

Thymele arbogastes Guenee, 1863

Coeliades arbogastes;
Coeliades forestan arbogastes; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [LepIndex]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
Coliades[sic] arbogastes; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 60 (text)

Coeliades hanno (Plötz, 1879)

Senegal - W.Kenya. See [maps] Western Policeman

Coeliades necho Plötz, 1884²

Coeliades hanno; [BK]: 390, pl. 57, f. 725; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Coliades[sic] hanno; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 64 (text)

Coeliades keithloa (Wallengren, 1857)

-. See [maps] Red Tab Policeman

Rhopalocampta keithloa Wallengren, 1857; K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4): 48

Coeliades keithloa; [PBSA]; [BK]: 390, pl. 57, f. 727; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Coliades[sic] keithloa; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 62

C. k. keithloa Mozambique - Natal

Coeliades keithloa keithloa; [AfrL]

C. k. kenya Evans, 1937 Kenya

Coeliades keithloa kenya; [BK]: 391; [AfrL]; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Coeliades kenya; [iNaturalist]

C. k. merua Evans, 1947 Kenya

Coeliades keithloa merua; [BK]: 391; [AfrL]; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Coeliades menelik merua; [iNaturalist]

C. k. menelik (Ungemach, 1932) Ethiopia

Coeliades keithloa menelik; [BK]: 391; [AfrL]; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Coeliades menelik menelik; [iNaturalist]
Coeliades menelik; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

Coeliades libeon (Druce, 1875)

Natal, Zululand, Moçambique, Rhodesia, Tropical Africa. See [maps] Spotless Policeman

Ismene libeon Druce, 1875; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875: 416

Coeliades libeon; [BK]: 389, pl. 57, f. 721; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Coliades[sic] libeon; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 63

Coeliades lorenzo Evans, 1947

Coeliades keithloa r. lorenzo Evans, 1946; Ann. Mag. Nat. hist. (11) 13: 641

Coeliades keithloa lorenzo; [LepIndex]; [CoL]
Coeliades lorenzo; [AfrL]; [iNaturalist]

Coeliades pisistratus (Fabricius, 1793)

Natal, Botswana, South West Africa. See [maps] Two Pip Policeman

Hesperia pisistratus Fabricius, 1793; Ent. Syst. 3 (1): 345

Coeliades pisistratus; [PBSA]; [BK]: 390, pl. 57, f. 724; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Coliades[sic] pisistratus; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 64

Coeliades rama Evans, 1937

Madagascar. See [maps]

Coeliades rama Evans, 1937; ; TL: N.Madagascar, Antakares

Coeliades rama; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

Coeliades ramanatek (Boisduval, 1833)

-. See [maps]

Thymele ramanatek Boisduval, 1833

Coeliades ramanatek; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [LEPIFORUM]
Coliades[sic] ramanatek; [BOW]: pl. 128, f. 65

C. r. ramanatek Madagascar

Coeliades ramanatek ramanatek; [MadL]; [AfrL]

C. r. comorana Evans, 1937 Comoro I.

Coeliades ramanatek comorana; [AfrL]; [LepIndex]; [CoL]

Coeliades sejuncta (Mabille & Vuillot, 1891)

coastal (Kenya, Tanzania), Malawi. See [maps] Coast Policeman

Coeliades sejuncta; [BK]: 390, pl. 57, f. 726; [AfrL]; [LepIndex] ; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

References:

[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
[BCA] electronic
BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA
[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!
[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
[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
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[LepIndex] Global Lepidoptera Index
Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A., Lyal, C., Ollerenshaw, J., Wing, P., & Hobern, D. (2024). Global Lepidoptera Index. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (1.1.24.106); https://doi.org/10.48580/dg4lg-49xk
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[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.
[²] This may require parentheses or not (original genus not verified)

Some related literature:

Butler, 1880
On a collection of Lepidoptera from Madagascar, with descriptions of new Genera and Species Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 5 (28): 333-344, (29): 384-395
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
Westwood, 1852
The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habitats and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus; illustrated with 86 plates by W. C. Hewitson Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): 1-18, pl. A, 1-4 (1-2) (1846), (1): 19-132, pl. 4*, 18*, 5-25, 28 (3-14) (1847), (1): 133-200, pl. 1*, 26, 27, 29 (15-23) (1848), (1): pl. 31-44 (15-23) (1848), (1): 201-242, pl. 30, 45-52, 56-58, 60-62, 64 (24-31) (1849), (1): 243-250 [?], (2): 243-326, pl. 53-55, 63, 65, 66 (32-38) (1850), (2): 327-466, pl. 59, 67-77 (39-50) (1851), (2): 467-534, 143, 144, pl. 78-80 (Index) (51-54) (1852)
Druce, 1875
A list of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera made by J.J. Monteiro, Esq., in Angola, with Descriptions of some new Species Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875 : 406-417
Evans, 1940
The Type of the Genus Pyrrhopyge (Lepidoptera-Hesperiidae) J. N.Y. ent. Soc. 48 (4) : 405-411
Evans, 1946
Revisional notes on African Hesperiidae Ann. Mag. Nat. hist. (11) 13 : 641-648
Fabricius, 1793
Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Ent. Syst. 3 (1) : 1-487
Gerstaecker, 1871
Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Zanzibar Archiv Naturg. 37 (1) : 345-363
Godman & Salvin, [1901]
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. (1887-1901) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 1-741 (?782), 3: pl. 1-112
Hewitson, 1867
Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson Ill. exot. Butts [5] : (Systematic Index) V, (Anteros): [1-2], pl. [1] (1867), (Erycina & Necyria): [3-4], pl. [2] (1870), (Erycina Symmachia &c): [5-6], pl. [3] (1875), (Necyria & Esthemopsis): [7-8], pl. [4] (1872), (Calydna): [9-10], pl. [5] (1854), (Calydna II): [11-12], pl. [6] (1859), (Theope): [13-14], pl. [7] (1860), (Symmachia): [15-16], pl. [8] (1867), (Symmachia & Charis II): [17-18], pl. [9] (1871), (Charis): [19-20], pl. [10] (1866), (Emesis): [21-22], pl. [11] (1872), (Nymphidium I): [23-24], pl. [12] (1853), (Nymphidium II-III): [25-28], pl. [13-14] (1865), (Nymphidium IV): [29-30], pl. [15] (1871), (Lemonias I): [31-32], pl. [16] (1853), (Lemonias II): [33-34], pl. [17] (1858), (Lemonias III-IV): [35-38], pl. [18-19] (1863), (Lemonias V): [39-40], pl. [20] (1872), (Lemonias & Baeotis): [41-42], pl. [21] (1875), (Lemonias & Baeotis): [43-44], pl. [22] (1874), (Pachythone & Cremna): [45-46], pl. [23] (1873), (Hades, Uraneis, &c): [47-48], pl. [24] (1870), (Limnas I-II): [49-52], pl. [25-26] (1853), (Limnas & Panara): [53-54], pl. [27] (1875), (Limnas &c): [55-56], pl. [28] (1876), (Limnas & Ithomeis): [57-58], pl. [29] (1870), (Chamaelimnas & Ithomiola): [59-60], pl. [30] (1871), (Hermathena &c): [61-62], pl. [31] (1875), (Ogyris): [63-64], pl. [32] (1853), (Pentila & Liptena): [65-66], pl. [33] (1866), (Pentila & Liptena II): [67-68], pl. [34] (1873), (Lycaena): [69-70], pl. [35] (1876), (Pyrrhopyga I-II): [71-74], pl. [36-37] (1857), (Pyrrhopyga): [75-76], pl. [38] (1869), (Pyrrhopyga II-III): [77-80], pl. [39-40] (1871), (Pyrrhopyga IV): [81-82], pl. [41] (1873), (Pyrrhopyga V & Erycides): [83-84], pl. [42] (1875), (Ismene I-II): [85-88], pl. [43-44] (1867), (Eudamus): [89-90], pl. [45] (1873), (Eudamus II-III): [91-94], pl. [46-47] (1875), (Chaetocneme): [95-96], pl. [48] (1874), (Hesperia I-II): [97-100], pl. [49-50] (1867), (Hesperia III): [101-102], pl. [51] (1868), (Hesperia IV): [103-104], pl. [52] (1869), (Hesperia V): [105-106], pl. [53] (1872), (Hesperia V*-VI): [107-110], pl. [54-55] (1873), (Hesperia VII): [111-112], pl. [56] (1876), (Leucochitonea): [113-114], pl. [57] (1869), (Leucochitonea II): [115-116], pl. [58] (1875), (Pterygospidea): [117-118], pl. [59] (1873), (Cyclopides): [119-120], pl. [60] (1874), (Cyclopides & Hesperilla): [121-122], pl. [61] (1874)
Hewitson, 1876
Descriptions of twenty new Species of Hesperidae Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 18 (106) : 347-355
Hübner, 1818
Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmettlinge, Vol. 1 [1808-] 1818 Zuträge Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : [1-3], 4-6, [7], 8-32, [33-40] (post 22nd December 1818), : pl. [1-2], f. 1-12 (1808 - 1809), : pl. [3-25], f. 13-146 (1809 - 1813), : pl. [26-35], f. 147-200 (1814 - 1818)
[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
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)
Wallengren, 1857
Kafferlandets Dag-fjärilar, insamlade åren 1838-1845 af J. A. Wahlberg / Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in Terra Caffrorum annis 1838-1845 collecta a J. A. Wahlberg K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 2 (4) : 1-55

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