page_title: Poritiinae
hierarchical_section_title: Poritiinae
caption_attribution_description: English: Druce Illustrations of African Lycaenidae Plate 2 Genus Pentila Westwood, [1851] PENTILA HEDWIGA. fig 1, 1a.Suffert. Iris xvii, p. 43, 1904. Cameroons.This = P. metadata Kirby Anns. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, v. 19, p. 363 (1887) which Professor Aurivilius considers to be a variety of P. abraxas. D. &amp; H. PENTILA CHRISTINA. fig 2, 2a. Suffert. Iris xvii, p. 45, 1904. Cameroons. PENTILA ELFRIEDA. f. 3, 3a.Suffert. Iris xvii, p. 46, 1904. Mukenge, Central Africa.Does not differ from Pentila cloetensi Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. 18, p. 214, f. 3 (1897) and must be sunk as a synonym. We possess a large series of this insect from the Congo, and I find considerable variation as to the size of the black apical patch on the fore-wing. PENTILA YAUNDA. f. 4, 4a. Karsch. Ent. Nachr. 21, p. 292 (1895). Cameroons.This again is nothing but P. maculata Kirby = P. abraxas. D. &amp; H. PENTILA AUGA. f. 5, 5a. Karsch Ent. Nachr, p. 293 (1895). Cameroons.Mr. G. L. Bates captured a series of this insect at Bitje, Ja River,Cameroons, but in the wet season o
context_page_description: Poritiinae is a subfamily of butterflies, the larvae of which are unusual for feeding on algae and foliate lichen.
context_section_description: Poritiinae is a subfamily of butterflies, the larvae of which are unusual for feeding on algae and foliate lichen.
caption: Plate from Illustrations of African Lycaenidae genus Pentila
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