Liptena

Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Liptena

Liptena sauberi
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Lycaenidae
Tribe:  | Liptenini
Genus:  | Liptena
Westwood, 1851[1]
Synonyms[2]

* Parapontia Röber, 1892
* Leucolepis Karsch, 1893

Liptena is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Liptena is endemic to the Afrotropics.

## Species

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* Liptena albicans Cator, 1904
* Liptena albomacula Hawker-Smith, 1933
* Liptena alluaudi Mabille, 1890
* Liptena amabilis Schultze, 1923
* Liptena augusta Suffert, 1904
* Liptena bassae Bethune-Baker, 1926
* Liptena batesana Bethune-Baker, 1926
* Liptena bergeri Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
* Liptena bia Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2008
* Liptena boei Libert, 1993
* Liptena bolivari Kheil, 1905
* Liptena catalina (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1887)
* Liptena confusa Aurivillius, 1899
* Liptena congoana Hawker-Smith, 1933
* Liptena decempunctata Schultze, 1923
* Liptena decipiens (Kirby, 1890)
* Liptena despecta (Holland, 1890)
* Liptena durbania Bethune-Baker, 1915
* Liptena eketi Bethune-Baker, 1926
* Liptena eukrinaria Bethune-Baker, 1926
* Liptena eukrinoides Talbot, 1937
* Liptena evanescens (Kirby, 1887)
* Liptena fatima (Kirby, 1890)
* Liptena ferrymani (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1891)
* Liptena flavicans (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1891)
* Liptena fontainei Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
* Liptena fulvicans Hawker-Smith, 1933
* Liptena griveaudi Stempffer, 1969
* Liptena hapale Talbot, 1935
* Liptena helena (Druce, 1888)
* Liptena homeyeri Dewitz, 1884
* Liptena ilaro Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
* Liptena inframacula Hawker-Smith, 1933
* Liptena intermedia Grünberg, 1910
* Liptena kiellandi Congdon & Collins, 1998
* Liptena liberti Collins, Larsen & Rawlins, 2008
* Liptena lloydi Collins & Larsen, 2008
* Liptena lualaba Berger, 1981
* Liptena minziro Collins & Larsen, 2008
* Liptena modesta (Kirby, 1890)
* Liptena mwagensis Dufrane, 1953
* Liptena nigromarginata Stempffer, 1961
* Liptena occidentalis Bethune-Baker, 1926
* Liptena ochrea Hawker-Smith, 1933
* Liptena opaca (Kirby, 1890)
* Liptena o-rubrum (Holland, 1890)
* Liptena ouesso Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
* Liptena overlaeti Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
* Liptena pearmani Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
* Liptena perobscura Druce, 1910
* Liptena praestans (Grose-Smith, 1901)
* Liptena priscilla Larsen, 1995
* Liptena rochei Stempffer, 1951
* Liptena rubromacula Hawker-Smith, 1933
* Liptena sauberi Schultze, 1912
* Liptena septistrigata (Bethune-Baker, 1903)
* Liptena seyboui Warren-Gash & Larsen, 2003
* Liptena similis (Kirby, 1890)
* Liptena simplicia Möschler, 1887
* Liptena submacula Lathy, 1903
* Liptena subsuffusa Hawker-Smith, 1933
* Liptena subundularis (Staudinger, 1892)
* Liptena tiassale Stempffer, 1969
* Liptena titei Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
* Liptena tricolora (Bethune-Baker, 1915)
* Liptena turbata (Kirby, 1890)
* Liptena undina (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1894)
* Liptena undularis Hewitson, 1866
* Liptena xanthostola (Holland, 1890)
* Liptena yukadumae Schultze, 1917

## References

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Wikispecies has information related to Liptena.

1. ^ Liptena at funet.fi
2. ^ Natural History Museum; Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (2023). "Liptena". nhm.ac.uk. The Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/s93616qw. Retrieved 9 July 2022.

* Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 64

Taxon identifiers

Liptena|

* Wikidata: Q1764302
* Wikispecies: Liptena
* BioLib: 624821
* BOLD: 55213
* ButMoth: 16186.0
* CoL: 5FBR
* EoL: 20710
* GBIF: 1928101
* iNaturalist: 149091
* IRMNG: 1418069
* LepIndex: 193576
* NCBI: 2773325
* Open Tree of Life: 3147272

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