Comprehensive Description
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[Gegenes pumilio gambica (Mabille)]
Pamphila gambica Mabille, 1878: 233 (Senegambia).
=Pamphila occulta Trimen, 1891: 103 (Barberton, Transvaal).
= Parnara (?) Ursula Holland, 1896: 64; pi. 2, fig. 4 (East Africa).
G. p. gambica is the subspecies of this savanna species occurring south of the Sahara and it should be looked for in the drier portions of Liberia on the strength of records from Gambia and Upper Volta (Evans, 1937: 188-189 and Berger, 1962: 463). Specimens from Cameroon and Gabon are the only ones in Carnegie Museum.
- 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
