Aphnaeus marshalli

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Aphnaeinae
Genus: Aphnaeus
Species: Aphnaeus marshalli
Name

Aphnaeus marshalli Neave, 1910.

Type locality: Tanzania, Upper Lofu Valley.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH: ""Upper Lofu Valley, Tanganyika Plateau, 4500ft, 26.viii.1908 (S. A. Neave).
Neallotype: ♀ BMNH: "Zimbabwe, Umtali District, 19.ix.1946 (P. A. Sheppard), designated by Libert, 2013: 76.
Paratype: ♂ OUMNH N.W. Rhodesia, Alala Plateua, Ndola Dist. 4,000ft. images.
Synonymy

Aphnaeus marshalli Neave, 1910: 48, pl. 2, fig. 8 ♂; Stempffer, 1967: 153; Libert, 2013: 76, pl. 12.

References

Libert, M., 2013. Révision du genre Aphnaeus Hübner (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), 100pp, 13 pls. A.B.R.I., Nairobi, Kenya. Reference page.
Neave, S.A., 1910. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910: 2–86 text plates. Reference page.
Stempffer, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology. Supplement 10: 322pp, 1pl. BHL Reference page.

Aphnaeus marshalli, the Marshall's highflier, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Tanzania (from the south-western part of the country to Kigoma), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (from the south-eastern part of the country to Katanga Province), Zambia and north-eastern Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of Brachystegia woodland.

Both sexes mud-puddle. Adults are on wing in September and October.

The larvae feed on Julbernardia globiflora and Brachystegia boehmii.
References

Aphnaeus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

"Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Tribe Aphnaeini (part 4)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-07-05.

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Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 69 d