Ahmetia achaja

Ahmetia achaja achaja, <♂:♀>, Thailand, Alan Cassidy/Bob Kennett photos.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilioniformes

Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Cladus: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Cladus: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Infraordo: Heteroneura Divisio: Ditrysia Sectio: Cossina Subsectio: Bombycina Superfamilia: Papilionoidea Series: Papilioniformes

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Cheritrini
Genus: Ahmetia
Species: Ahmetia achaja
Subspecies: A. a. achaja – A. a. jamadai
[subspecies after Saito (2008)]

Name

Ahmetia achaja (Fruhstorfer, 1912)

Type Locality: Thailand, Hinlap.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH, 300m, i.1900.

Synonyms

• Horaga achaja Fruhstorfer, 1912: 233.
• Cowania achaja (Fruhstorfer); Eliot, 1973: 450 (implied)
• Ahmetia achaja (Fruhstorfer); Özdikmen, 2008: 322 (comb. nov.)

References

cited sources

• Eliot, J.N. 1973: The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology, 28: 371-505. BHL
• Fruhstorfer, H., 1912. Ubersicht der Lycaeniden des Indo-Australischen Gebiets. Begründet auf die Ausbeute und die Sammlung des Autors. Berl. ent. Z. 56(3/4): 197-272, 4 Figs.
• Özdikmen, H. 2008: Replacement names for two preoccupied butterfly genus group names (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Munis entomology & zoology, 3: 321-322. PDF
• Saito, K. 2008: A new subspecies of Cowania achaja (Fruhstorfer, 1912) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from S. Vietnam. Futao, (54): 1-5. ISSN: 0916-1112

additional references

• Ballmer, G.R.; Wright, D.M. 2008: Life history and larval chaetotaxy of Ahmetia achaja (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Lycaeninae, Theclini, Cheritrina). Zootaxa, 1845: 47–59. Abstract & excerpt PDF