''Epitolina'' is a genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...
. Confusingly, it is also the name of a subtribe within the subfamily
Poritiinae
Poritiinae is a subfamily of butterflies, the larvae of which are unusual for feeding on algae and foliate lichen.
Systematics
* Tribe Poritiini - Oriental
** '' Cyaniriodes'' de Nicéville, 1890 (sometimes placed in Lycaeninae)
** ''Poriski ...
and the tribe Liptenini.
Species
*''Epitolina dispar'' group
**''
Epitolina collinsi''
Libert, 2000
**''
Epitolina dispar
''Epitolina dispar'', the common epitolina, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republ ...
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(Kirby, 1887)
**''
Epitolina melissa
''Epitolina melissa'', the powdered epitolina, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The species was first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1888. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south and ...
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(Druce, 1888)
*''Epitolina catori'' group
**''
Epitolina catori''
Bethune-Baker, 1904
**''
Epitolina larseni''
Libert, 2000
References
Poritiinae
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
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