Semanga

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: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Arhopalini
Genus: Semanga
Species: S. helena – S. superba
Name

Semanga Distant, 1884: 233, 239.

Type Species: Ilerda ? suberba Druce, 1873: 350, pl.32 fig.11.
Synonymy

Keraunogramma Röber, 1887: 196.

Semanga superba, Borneo,

References

Distant, W.L. 1882–1886. Rhopalocera Malayana. 16 + 481pp., 41pls. London. BHL text, plates. Reference page.
Druce, H. 1873. A list of the Collections of Diurnal Lepidoptera made by Mr. Lowe in Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873: 337–361 pls 32,33. Reference page.
Röber, J., 1887. Neue Schmetterlinge aus Indien. Correspbl. ent. Ver. Iris 1(4): 185-202, pls. 7-9. text, plates. Reference page.
Takanami, Y., 1989. On some type specimens of Lycaenidae from South East Asia. Tyô to Ga 40(1): 23-80. PDF. Reference page.

Semanga is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The genus was erected by William Lucas Distant in 1884.
Species

Listed alphabetically:[1]

Semenga helena (Röber, 1887) – Helena rededge - found in Banggai and ?Sulawesi
Semanga superba (Druce, 1873) - found in Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya, Singapore, Langkawi, Burma, Mergui, Thailand, Pulau Tioman, Sumatra, Thailand and Vietnam

References

Savela, Markku. "Semanga Distant, 1884". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2018.