Liptena

Liptena
Liptena despecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Liptena Westwood, [1851]
Synonyms
Parapontia Röber, 1892 Leucolepis Karsch, 1893

Liptena is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Liptena is endemic to the Afrotropics.

Species

• Liptena albicans Cator, 1904
• Liptena albomacula Hawker-Smith, 1933
• Liptena alluaudi Mabille, 1890
• Liptena amabilis Schultze, 1923
• Liptena augusta Suffert, 1904
• Liptena bassae Bethune-Baker, 1926
• Liptena batesana Bethune-Baker, 1926
• Liptena bergeri Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
• Liptena bia Larsen & Warren-Gash, 2008
• Liptena boei Libert, 1993
• Liptena bolivari Kheil, 1905
• Liptena catalina (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1887)
• Liptena confusa Aurivillius, 1899
• Liptena congoana Hawker-Smith, 1933
• Liptena decempunctata Schultze, 1923
• Liptena decipiens (Kirby, 1890)
• Liptena despecta (Holland, 1890)
• Liptena durbania Bethune-Baker, 1915
• Liptena eketi Bethune-Baker, 1926
• Liptena eukrinaria Bethune-Baker, 1926
• Liptena eukrinoides Talbot, 1937
• Liptena evanescens (Kirby, 1887)
• Liptena fatima (Kirby, 1890)
• Liptena ferrymani (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1891)
• Liptena flavicans (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1891)
• Liptena fontainei Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
• Liptena fulvicans Hawker-Smith, 1933
• Liptena griveaudi Stempffer, 1969
• Liptena hapale Talbot, 1935
• Liptena helena (Druce, 1888)
• Liptena homeyeri Dewitz, 1884
• Liptena ilaro Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
• Liptena inframacula Hawker-Smith, 1933
• Liptena intermedia Grünberg, 1910
• Liptena kiellandi Congdon & Collins, 1998
• Liptena liberti Collins, Larsen & Rawlins, 2008
• Liptena lloydi Collins & Larsen, 2008
• Liptena lualaba Berger, 1981
• Liptena minziro Collins & Larsen, 2008
• Liptena modesta (Kirby, 1890)
• Liptena mwagensis Dufrane, 1953
• Liptena nigromarginata Stempffer, 1961
• Liptena occidentalis Bethune-Baker, 1926
• Liptena ochrea Hawker-Smith, 1933
• Liptena opaca (Kirby, 1890)
• Liptena o-rubrum (Holland, 1890)
• Liptena ouesso Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
• Liptena overlaeti Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
• Liptena pearmani Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
• Liptena perobscura Druce, 1910
• Liptena praestans (Grose-Smith, 1901)
• Liptena priscilla Larsen, 1995
• Liptena rochei Stempffer, 1951
• Liptena rubromacula Hawker-Smith, 1933
• Liptena sauberi Schultze, 1912
• Liptena septistrigata (Bethune-Baker, 1903)
• Liptena seyboui Warren-Gash & Larsen, 2003
• Liptena similis (Kirby, 1890)
• Liptena simplicia Möschler, 1887
• Liptena submacula Lathy, 1903
• Liptena subsuffusa Hawker-Smith, 1933
• Liptena subundularis (Staudinger, 1892)
• Liptena tiassale Stempffer, 1969
• Liptena titei Stempffer, Bennett & May, 1974
• Liptena tricolora (Bethune-Baker, 1915)
• Liptena turbata (Kirby, 1890)
• Liptena undina (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1894)
• Liptena undularis Hewitson, 1866
• Liptena xanthostola (Holland, 1890)
• Liptena yukadumae Schultze, 1917

References

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 64