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Actizera Chapman, 1910
Actizera Chapman, 1910; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 (4) : 483, TS: Lycaena atrigemmata Butler
Actizizera ; Sharp, [1911], in Zool. Rec. 47 (year 1910) (Ins.): 321 (missp.)
Actizera (Polyommatini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 447; [BK, 239]; [AfrL]

Actizera lucida (Trimen, 1883)
South Africa - E.Africa - Kenya, Madagascar. See [About maps] Rayed Blue
Lycaena lucida Trimen, 1883; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1883 (4) : 348
Actizera lucida ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 119, f. 4]; [BAFR, 550]; [MadL]; [AfrL]

Larva on Oxalis sp., Argyrolobium sp., Rhyncosia sp., Crotalaria lanceolata [PBSA]

Actizera lucida lucida ; [BK: 239, pl. 25, f. 346]

Actizera drucei (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
Madagascar. See [About maps] Zizera drucei Bethune-Baker, 1906
Actizera lucida drucei ;
Actizera drucei ; [MadL, fn. 100]; [AfrL]

Actizera stellata (Trimen, 1883)
Cape, Orange Free State, Ethiopia, S.Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Zaire (Kivu), Tanzania, N.Malawi. See [About maps] Clover Blue
Lycaena stellata Trimen, 1883; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1883 (4) : 349
Actizera stellata ; [EBW, (name)]; [BOW: pl. 119, f. 5]; [BAFR, 551]; [BK: 239, pl. 25, f. 347]; [AfrL]

Larva on Trifolium africanum [PBSA]


Actizera atrigemmata (Butler, 1878)
Madagascar. See [About maps] Lycaena atrigemmata Butler, 1878; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 2 (10) : 290
Zizera atrigemmata ; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 109, pl. 11, f. 11
Actizera atrigemmata ; [BAFR, 550]; [MadL]; [AfrL]


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References:
[About 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.
[AfrL]
Mark C. Williams; Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); e-mail: Mark C. Williams
[BAFR]
D'Abrera, 1980; Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region
[BK]
Larsen, Torben B., 1996; The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history
[BOW]
Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X
[EBW]
Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6
[MadL]
Lees, D.C., Kremen, C. and Raharitsimba, H. 2003; in S.M. Goodman & J. P. Benstead (eds.), The Natural History of Madagascar; Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist: : pp. 762-793; University of Chicago Press. 1709 pp.
[PBSA]
Dickson, C.G.C (ed.), Kroon, D.M.; Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa; AD. DONKER 1978


Some related literature:
Butler, 1878
On a Collection of Lepidoptera recently received from Madagascar Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 2 (10) : 283-297
Butler, 1900
A Revision of the Butterflies of the Genus Zizera represented in the Collection of the British Museum Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 104-111, pl. 11
Chapman, 1910
On Zizeeria Chapman, Zizera Moore. A Group of Lycaenid Butterflies Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 (4) : 479-497, pl. 51-60
Eliot, 1973
The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505, 162fgs, pl. 1-6
Trimen, 1883
Descriptions of twelve new species of South African Lepidoptera Rhopalocera Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1883 (4) : 347-363


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