''Pentila'' is a genus of
butterflies, commonly called pentilas or buffs, 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 butterf ...
. The species of this genus are
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to the
Afrotropics. For other butterflies called buffs, see genus ''
Baliochila''.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
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Pentila abraxas''
Westwood, 1852
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Pentila alba''
Dewitz, 1886
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Pentila amenaida''
Hewitson, 1873
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Pentila amenaidoides''
(Holland, 1893)
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Pentila auga''
Karsch, 1895
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Pentila bennetti''
Collins & Larsen, 2003
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Pentila bitje''
Druce, 1910
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Pentila camerunica''
Stempffer & Bennett, 1961
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Pentila carcassoni''
Stempffer & Bennett, 1961
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Pentila christina''
Suffert, 1904
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Pentila cloetensi''
Aurivillius, 1898
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Pentila condamini''
Stempffer, 1963
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Pentila fallax''
Bethune-Baker, 1915
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Pentila fidonioides''
Schultze, 1923
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Pentila glagoessa''
(Holland, 1893)
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Pentila hewitsoni
''Pentila hewitsoni'', the Hewitson's cream pentila, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of deep fore ...
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(Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1887)
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Pentila inconspicua''
Druce, 1910 – inconspicuous pentila
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Pentila landbecki''
Stempffer & Bennett, 1961
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Pentila maculata''
(Kirby, 1887)
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Pentila mesia''
Hulstaert, 1924
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Pentila nero''
(Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1894)
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Pentila nigeriana''
Stempffer & Bennett, 1961
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Pentila occidentalium''
Aurivillius, 1899
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Pentila pauli
''Pentila pauli'', the Paul's buff, Paul's pentila or spotted pentila, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the ...
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Staudinger, 1888 – Paul's buff
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Pentila petreia''
Hewitson, 1874
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Pentila petreoides''
Bethune-Baker, 1915
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Pentila phidia''
Hewitson, 1874
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Pentila picena''
Hewitson, 1874
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Pentila preussi''
Staudinger, 1888
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Pentila pseudorotha''
Stempffer & Bennett, 1961
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Pentila rogersi''
(Druce, 1907) – Rogers' pentila
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Pentila rondo''
Kielland, 1990
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Pentila rotha''
Hewitson, 1873
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Pentila subfuscata
''Pentila subfuscata'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Kasai and Lualaba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquiall ...
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Hawker-Smith, 1933
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Pentila swynnertoni''
Stevenson, 1940
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Pentila tachyroides''
Dewitz, 1879 – mylothrid pentila
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Pentila torrida''
(Kirby, 1887)
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Pentila tropicalis''
(Boisduval, 1847) – tropical pentila, spotted buff
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Pentila umangiana''
Aurivillius, 1898
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Pentila umbra''
Holland, 1892
References
Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 63 and 64*
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Poritiinae
Taxa named by John O. Westwood
Lycaenidae genera
{{Poritiinae-stub