Anthene
Anthene and related genera in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Lycaenesthini
Genus:	Anthene Doubleday, 1847
Synonyms
Lycaenesthes Moore, [1866] Triclema Karsch, 1893 Neurypexina Bethune-Baker, 1910 Neurellipes Bethune-Baker, 1910 Monile Ungemach, 1932 Pseudoliptena Stempffer, 1946

Anthenes as Lycaenesthes Bethune-Baker, 1910 Transactions of the Entomological Society of London

Anthene is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, commonly called the ciliate blues or hairtails. The genus was erected by Edward Doubleday in 1847.

Subgenera and species

Listed alphabetically within subgenera:^[1]

• Subgenus Anthene Doubleday, 1847 (Afrotropical realm)
  • Anthene abruptus (Gaede, 1915)
  • Anthene afra (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene alberta (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene amarah (Guérin-Méneville, 1847) – black-striped hairtail
  • Anthene arnoldi (N. Jones, 1917)
  • Anthene arora Larsen, 1983
  • Anthene atewa Larsen & Collins, 1998
  • Anthene aurobrunnea (Ungemach, 1932)
  • Anthene bakeri (H. H. Druce, 1910)
  • Anthene barnesi Stevenson, 1940
  • Anthene bipuncta (Joicey & Talbot, 1921)
  • Anthene bjoernstadi Collins & Larsen, 1991
  • Anthene buchholzi (Plötz, 1880)
  • Anthene butleri (Oberthür, 1880) – pale hairtail
  • Anthene chirinda (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene collinsi D'Abrera, 1980
  • Anthene contrastata Ungemach, 1932 – mashuna hairtail
  • Anthene crawshayi (Butler, 1899)
  • Anthene definita (Butler, 1899) – common hairtail
  • Anthene discimacula (Joicey & Talbot, 1921)
  • Anthene emkopoti Larsen & Collins, 1998
  • Anthene erythropoecilus (Holland, 1893)
  • Anthene flavomaculatus (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1893)
  • Anthene helpsi Larsen, 1994
  • Anthene hobleyi (Neave, 1904)
  • Anthene hodsoni (Talbot, 1935)
  • Anthene indefinita (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene irumu (Stempffer, 1948)
  • Anthene ituria (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene janna Gabriel, 1949
  • Anthene juanitae Henning & Henning, 1993 – Juanita's hairtail
  • Anthene juba (Fabricius, 1787)
  • Anthene kampala (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene katera Talbot, 1937
  • Anthene kersteni (Gerstaecker, 1871) – Kersten's hairtail
  • Anthene kikuyu (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene lachares (Hewitson, [1878])
  • Anthene larydas (Cramer, [1780])
  • Anthene lasti (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1894)
  • Anthene lemnos (Hewitson, 1878) – large hairtail
  • Anthene leptala (Courvoisier, 1914)
  • Anthene leptines (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Anthene levis (Hewitson, 1878)
  • Anthene ligures (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Anthene lindae Henning & Henning, 1994 – Linda's hairtail
  • Anthene liodes (Hewitson, 1874) – liodes hairtail
  • Anthene locuples (Grose-Smith, 1898)
  • Anthene lunulata (Trimen, 1894)
  • Anthene lychnaptes (Holland, 1891)
  • Anthene lychnides (Hewitson, 1878)
  • Anthene lysicles (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Anthene madibirensis (Wichgraf, 1921)
  • Anthene mahota (Grose-Smith, 1887)
  • Anthene makala (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene melambrotus (Holland, 1893)
  • Anthene millari (Trimen, 1893) – Millar's hairtail
  • Anthene minima (Trimen, 1893) – little hairtail
  • Anthene montana Kielland, 1990
  • Anthene mpanda Kielland, 1990
  • Anthene ngoko Stempffer, 1962
  • Anthene nigropunctata (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene onias (Hulstaert, 1924)
  • Anthene opalina Stempffer, 1946
  • Anthene otacilia (Trimen, 1868) – Otacilia hairtail or Trimen's ciliate blue
  • Anthene pitmani Stempffer, 1936
  • Anthene princeps (Butler, 1876) – cupreous hairtail
  • Anthene pyroptera (Aurivillius, 1895)
  • Anthene radiata (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene ramnika D'Abrera, 1980
  • Anthene rhodesiana Stempffer, 1962
  • Anthene rothschildi (Aurivillius, 1922)
  • Anthene rubricinctus (Holland, 1891)
  • Anthene rubrimaculata (Strand, 1909)
  • Anthene rufomarginata (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene ruwenzoricus (Grünberg, 1911)
  • Anthene saddacus (Talbot, 1935)
  • Anthene schoutedeni (Hulstaert, 1924)
  • Anthene scintillula (Holland, 1891)
  • Anthene sheppardi Stevenson, 1940
  • Anthene starki Larsen, 2005
  • Anthene suquala (Pagenstecher, 1902)
  • Anthene sylvanus (Drury, 1773)
  • Anthene talboti Stempffer, 1936 – Talbot's hairtail
  • Anthene ukerewensis (Strand, 1909)
  • Anthene uzungwae Kielland, 1990
  • Anthene versatilis (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene wilsoni (Talbot, 1935)
  • Anthene xanthopoecilus (Holland, 1893)
  • Anthene zenkeri (Karsch, 1895)
• Subgenus Anthene Doubleday, 1847; Australasia-species group (Indomalayan realm, Australasian realm, Himalayan area in the Palearctic realm):
  • Anthene emolus (Godart, [1824]) – ciliate blue
  • Anthene licates (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Anthene lycaenina (R. Felder, 1868) – pointed ciliate blue
  • Anthene lycaenolus Tite, 1966
  • Anthene lycaenoides (Felder, 1860)
  • Anthene paraffinis (Fruhstorfer, 1916)
  • Anthene philo Hopffer, 1874
  • Anthene seltuttus (Röber, 1886)
  • Anthene villosa (Snellen, 1878)
• Subgenus Neurellipes Bethune-Baker, 1910 Afrotropical realm
  • Anthene aequatorialis Stempffer, 1962
  • Anthene chryseostictus (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene fulvus Stempffer, 1962
  • Anthene gemmifera (Neave, 1910)
  • Anthene likouala Stempffer, 1962
  • Anthene lusones (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Anthene staudingeri (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1894)
• Subgenus Neurypexina Bethune-Baker, 1910 Afrotropical realm
  • Anthene kalinzu (Stempffer, 1950)
  • Anthene lamprocles (Hewitson, 1878)
  • Anthene lyzanius (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Anthene quadricaudata (Bethune-Baker, 1926)
• Subgenus Triclema Karsch, 1893 Afrotropical realm
  • Anthene africana (Bethune-Baker, 1926)
  • Anthene coerulea (Aurivillius, 1895)
  • Anthene fasciatus (Aurivillius, 1895)
  • Anthene hades (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene inconspicua (H. H. Druce, 1910)
  • Anthene inferna (Bethune-Baker, 1926)
  • Anthene kamilila (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene kimboza (Kielland, 1990)
  • Anthene krokosua (Larsen, 2005)
  • Anthene lacides (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Anthene lamias (Hewitson, 1878)
  • Anthene lucretilis (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Anthene lutzi (Holland, 1920)
  • Anthene marshalli (Bethune-Baker, 1903)
  • Anthene nigeriae (Aurivillius, 1905)
  • Anthene obscura (H. H. Druce, 1910)
  • Anthene oculatus (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1893)
  • Anthene phoenicis (Karsch, 1893)
  • Anthene rufoplagata (Bethune-Baker, 1910)
  • Anthene tisamenus (Holland, 1891)
• Subgenus unknown
  • Anthene georgiadisi Larsen, 2009

References

• Cramer, P. (1775-1780). De Uitlandsche Kapellen ... Asia, Africa en America ... Amsterdam, Baalde & Utrecht, 4 vols.
• Doubleday, E. (1847). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 2: [ii], 57 pp. London.
• Hemming, A. F. (1935). In Carpenter (1935). Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 83: 313-447.
• Henning, G.A. & Henning, S.F. (1993). Description of a new species of Anthene Doubleday (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from the Transvaal, South Africa. Metamorphosis 4(4): 156-158.
• Larsen, T.B. (2009). Anthene georgiadisi sp. nov. (Lep.: Lycaenidae) – a new butterfly from Liberia. Entomologist's record and journal of variation, 121 (1): 47-51. ISSN 0013-8916
• Moore, F. (1866). On the lepidopterous insects of Bengal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1865: 755-823, 3 pls.
• Stempffer, H. (1946). Contribution a l'etude des Lycaenidae de la faune ethiopienne. Revue fr. Ent. 13: 8-19.
• Tennent, W.J. (2001). Twenty new butterflies from the Solomon Islands (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae; Lycaenidae; Nymphalinae; Satyrinae; Danainae). British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 14: 1-27.
• Tite, G. E. (1966). A revision of the genus Anthene from the Oriental region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 18: 253-275, 2 pls, 28 text figs.
• Ungemach, H. (1932). Contribution a l'étude des lépidoptères d'Abyssinie. Mém. Soc. Sci. nat. phy. Maroc. 32: 1-122, 2 pls., 1 map.
• Williams, M. C. (2008). Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies.

External links

• Media related to Anthene at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Anthene at Wikispecies
• Takanami, Yusuke & Seki, Yasuo (2001). "Genus Anthene". A Synonymic List of Lycaenidae from the Philippines. Archived June 30, 2001. With images.
• "Taxonomy Browser: Anthene". Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Retrieved January 10, 2020.