Uranothauma cordatus

Uranothauma cordatus

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: Polyommatini
Genus: Uranothauma
Species: Uranothauma cordatus

Name

Uranothauma cordatus (Sharpe, [1892]).

Type locality: Kenya: “Sotik, Kavirondo”.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH.

Synonymy

• Hyreus cordatus Sharpe, [1892]: 636, pl. 48, fig. 4.
• Uranothauma cordatus (Sharpe); Butler, 1900: 928; Stempffer, 1967: 203; Williams, 2008, Polyommatini 1: 17.

References

• Butler, A.G. [1901]. On two consignments of butterflies collected by Mr. Richard Crawshay in the Kikuyu country of British East Africa in 1899 and 1900. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900: 911–946, Pl.58. text, Plate. Reference page. 
• Sharpe, E., [1892]. Descriptions of new butterflies collected by Mr. F.J. Jackson, F.Z.S., in British East Africa. Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891: 633-638. Reference page. 
• Stempffer, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology. Supplement 10: 322pp, 1pl. BHL Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.