Osmodes adon Mabille 1889

[Osmodes adon (Mabille)]
Pamphila adon Mabille, 1889: 149 (Sierra Leone).
= Osmodes barombina Neustetter, 1916: 106 (Cameroon).
= Osmodes adon noda Evans, 1951: 1272 (Bitje, Cameroon).
This species, one of the rarest Osmodes, has been recorded from Sierra Leone, Ghana and Cameroon, and the "subspecies" noda is known from Cameroon, Gabon and the Congo. Inasmuch as Carnegie Museum material of adon is from the center of the range of noda, the latter can hardly be a subspecies, as noted by Miller ( 1964: 289). Since adonia Evans (1937: 113), described as an adon subspecies, has been raised to specific ranking on the basis of genitalic differences and sympatry with adon (Miller, 1964: 290), the status of noda is very much in doubt.
On the basis of the records from Sierra Leone and Ghana adon may be expected in Liberia, although it is thus far unreported.