GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



Genus PENTILA Westvvood 



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Pentila Westwood, 1851, Genera Diurnal Lepidoptera, pi. 76 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 258, 1914 : 303 ; 



Murray, 1935 : 52 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : 191. Type-species : Tingra tropicalis Boisduval. 



1847 ; 1935 : I. C.Z.N. Opinion 566. 



Head small, vertex bearing adpressed hairs ; eyes large and naked ; palpi very small and very 

 short, underside of 1st and 2nd segments bearing long scales, last segment reduced, button- 

 shaped ; antennae short, fairly robust, with a very distinct club which is an elongated oval in 



Fig. 8. Pentila tropicalis (Boisduval), J genitalia. 



Fig. 9. Pentila tachyroides Dewitz, $ genitalia. 



