Comprehensive Description
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[Tarucus theophrastus Fabricius]
Hesperia thophrastus Fabricius, 1793 [1793-1794] 3: 281.
Tarucus theophrastus: Bethune-Baker, 1918: 286; pi. 14, figs. 12-12a, pi. 16, fig. 12, pi. 18, pi. 20, figs. 29, 32-34. de Fleury, 1926: 142. Hawker-Smith, 1929: 232. Stempffer, 1942: 120; fig. 1. Condamin, 1956: 201.
The species ranges from southern Europe to India and in Africa from the Mediterranean Sea south to Senegal, northern Nigeria and Abyssinia.
- bibliographic citation
- Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA
