Katreus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Katreinae
Genus: Katreus
Species: K. johnstonii
Name

Katreus Watson, 1893: 115.

Type species: Astictopterus johnstonii Butler, 1887: 573, by original designation.
Synonymy

Choristoneura Mabille, 1889: clvi. (junior homonym of Choristoneura Lederer, 1859, in Lepidoptera: Tortricidae).
Katreus Watson, 1893: 115.
Loxolexis Karsch, 1895: 320. TS: Loxolexis percnoptera. Synonymy in Zhang et al., 2019.
Daratus Lindsey, 1925: 84. This designation was un-necessary, see Hemming, 1967: 141.

Katreus johnstonii

References

Butler A.G., 1887. On two small Collections of African Lepidoptera recently received from Mr. HH Johnston. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 567-574. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Karsch, F. 1895. Aethiopische Rhopaloceren II. Entomologische Nachrichten 21: 289–322. BHL Reference page.
Lindsey, A.W. 1925. The Types of Hesperioid Genera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 18(1): 75-106. Reference page.
Mabille, P., 1889. La description de Lépidoptères Hesperiidae nouveaux. Bulletin des Séances et Bulletin de la Societé Entomologique de France 1889: CXLIX-CL. Reference page.
Watson, E.Y. 1893. A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1893(1): 3–132, 3 pls. BHL text, plates. Reference page.
Zhang, J., Cong. Q., Shen, J.H., Brockmann, E. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Three new subfamilies of skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). ZooKeys 861: 91–105. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.861.34686 Reference page.