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Spindasis aderna aderna

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[Spindasis (Lipaphnaeus) aderna aderna Plotz]
Zeritas aderna Plotz, 1880: 203. Spindasis aderna: Aurivillius, 1898: 332. Aurivillius, 1923 [1908-1925]: 415; pi. 70a. =Zeritis fallax E. M. Sharpe, 1890a: 104. Crowley, 1890: 555; pi. 17. fig. 4. =Zeritis latifimbriata E. M. Sharpe. 1890a: 105. Crowley. 1890: 555; pi. 17, fig. 5.
An extremely rare and local species (at least in western Africa),
S. aderna has been recorded from Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Gabon and ranges eastward to Uganda and Rhodesia (subspecies pan Talbot and spindasoides Aurivillius ) . There are, as yet, no known records from Liberia.
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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