Leptotes sanctithomae

Leptotes sanctithomae is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.^[2] It is found on São Tomé Island.^[1][3] The type locality is the settlement of São Nicolau, Mé-Zóchi District.^[3] It was described by Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe in 1893.

Leptotes sanctithomae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Leptotes
Species:	L. sanctithomae
Binomial name
Leptotes sanctithomae (Sharpe, 1893)[1]
Synonyms
Catochrysops sancti-thomae Sharpe, 1893 Freyeria sanctithomae (Sharpe, 1893) Chilades sanctithomae (Sharpe, 1893) Syntarucus terrenus Joicey & Talbot, 1926 Leptotes terrenus (Joicey & Talbot, 1926)

This species had long remained enigmatic and was assigned to the genus Chilades until 2011, when it was ruled to be the same species as the one so far called Leptotes terrenus (Joicey & Talbot, 1926), and was moved to the genus Leptotes.^[4]