Libythea cinyras Trimen, 1866
Mauritius libythid butterfly, Mauritius snout butterfly
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1865 (Davis & Barnes, 1991:151)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Moka district, Mauritius
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from the holotype.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Trimen, R. (1866). Notes on the butterflies of Mauritius. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3rd Ser.) 5(4): 329-344.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Davis, P. M. H. and Barnes, M. J. C. (1991). The Butterflies of Mauritius. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 30(3-4): 145-161.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Henning, Graham. (2015). Lepidoptera conservation in South Africa - part 2. Babbel Blues 3: 18-23.
IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Kawahara, Akito Y. (2006). Biology of the snout butterflies (Nymphalidae, Libytheinae), Part 1: Libythea Fabricius. Transactions of the lepidopterological Society of Japan 57: 13-33.
Kawahara, Akito Y. and Wahlberg, Niklas. (2007). Libythea cinyras Trimen 1866. Version 03 December 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Libythea_cinyras/76307/2007.12.03 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
Manders, N. (1908). The butterflies of Mauritius and Bourbon. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1907(4): 429-454.
Trimen, R. (1879). On some hitherto undescribed butterflies inhabiting southern Africa. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1879: 337-340.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996a). Libythea cinyras. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 July 2012.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1996b. Libythea cinyras. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T11934A3316737. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T11934A3316737.en. Accessed on 19 June 2022.
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