Candalides grandissima

Candalides grandissima Papua New Guinea, from Bethune-Baker, 1908.

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Candalidini
Genus: Candalides
Species: Candalides grandissima

Name

Candalides grandissima Bethune-Baker, 1908.

Type locality: Papua New Guinea.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH: "Owgarra B.N. Guinea, (A.S. Meek)".

Synonymy

• Candalides grandis Bethune-Baker, 1906: 102; invalid, pre-occupied by Holochila grandis Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1899.
• Candalides grandissima Bethune-Baker, 1908: 121, pl. 8, fig. 15; Parsons, 1998: 419, pl. 65, figs 1816-1818.
• Holochila grandissiima grandissima (Bethune-Baker); Tite, 1963: 211.
• Holochila grandissima morobea Wind & Clench, 1947: 4; Tite, 1963: 211. Papua New Guinea, Morobe district.

References

• Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1906. New Species of Lycaenidae from British New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of natural History 7 (17): 100–104. BHL. Reference page. 
• Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1908. Descriptions of butterflies of the Division Rhopalocera from Africa and from New Guinea. Proceedings of the zoological Society, London 1908: 110–126, 2 pls. BHL. Reference page. 
• Grose-Smith, H. & Kirby, W.F. 1887–1902. Rhopalocera Exotica - being Illustrations of New, Rare and Unfigured Species of Butterflies 3 Vols. Gurney & Jackson, London. Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3. Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page. 
• Wind, R. G. & Clench H. K., 1947b. New Indo-Australian Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 42: 1-16. Reference page.