1. Lebendfotos

1.1. Falter

2. Weitere Informationen

2.1. Andere Kombinationen

• Teracolus praeclarus Butler, [1886] [Originalkombination]
• Colotis celimene praeclarus (Butler, [1886])

2.2. Taxonomie und Faunistik

Butler ([1886]: 769) beschrieb seine "Teracolus praeclarus" nach zwei Exemplaren von "Somali-land", also aus Somalia. Später wurde das Taxon meist als Unterart gefasst: Colotis celimene praeclarus. Nazari et al. (2011: 211, 215) führen das Taxon wieder als eigene Art - Colotis praeclarus - innerhalb der Gattung Colotis in ihrer "Group VII" neben Colotis zoe und C. celimene und erklären dazu: "Within C. celimene, individuals from Nigeria (ssp. sudanicus), Niger, Congo and Kenya show only minor variation in their barcodes (0.3 ± 0.1%). Several subspecies currently recognized under C. celimene (e.g. sudanicus, amina, angusi, etc.) may be redundant; however, the Namibian ssp. pholoe is divergent (2.5 ± 0.2%). The Somali ssp. praeclarus has been recently proposed as a distinct species (Bouyer 2010)."

(Autor: Erwin Rennwald)

2.3. Literatur

• Erstbeschreibung: Butler, A. G. ([1886]): An account of two collections of Lepidoptera recently received from Somali-land. — Proceedings of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1885 (4): 756-776, pl. 47. [Digitalisat auf archive.org]
• Nazari, V., Larsen, T.B., Lees, D.C., Brattström, O., Bouyer, T., Poel, G. van de & P.D.N. Hebert (2011): Phylogenetic systematics of Colotis and associated genera (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): evolutionary and taxonomic implications. - Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 49 (3): 204–215. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2011.00620.x. [zum PDF-Download auf researchgate.net]