Zizula hylax

Zizula hylax, ♀♂♂, Thailand, Sulawesi, Maluku.

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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Zizula
Species: Zizula hylax
Subspecies: Z. h. attenuata – Z. h. dampierensis – Z. h. hylax – Z. h. pygmaea

Name

Zizula hylax (Fabricius, 1775).

Type Locality: India "Tranquebar".

Syntype: ♀ UZMC

Synonymy

• Papilio hylax Fabricius, 1775: 526, no. 351.
• Lycaena gaika Trimen, 1862: 403. South Africa.
• Lycaena mylica Guenée, 1862: 18. Réunion, "Bourbon".
• Lycaena cleodora Walker, 1870: 54. Egypt.
• Lycaena perparva Saalmüller, 1884: 93. Madagascar.
• Zizera gaika (Trimen); Butler, 1900: 109; Rothschild, 1915: 389.
• Zizera horii Matsumura, 1915: 67-68. Saipan.
• Zizeeria gaika (Trimen); Winter-Blyth, 1957: 285.
• Zizula gaika (Trimen); Lewis, 1974: pl. 182, fig. 10.
• Zizula hylax (Triman); D'Abrera, 1986: 651; D'Abrera, 1980: 551; Larsen, 1996: 239, pl. 4; Chou (Rd): 675; Williams, 2010, Polyommatini 1: 86.

References

• D'Abrera, B., 1980. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne: xx, 593 pp.
• D'Abrera, B., 1986. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part III: pp. 536-672. Melbourne.
• Butler, A. G., 1900. A revision of the butterflies of the genus Zizera represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900: 104 - 110, 1. pl.
• Chou Io (ed.), Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2
• Corbet, A. S., 1940. The identity of the Fabrician species Papilio sphinx and Papilio hylax. Entomologist 73: 275-277.
• Fabricius, J.C. 1775: Systema Entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species... Flensburgh and Leipzig, Library Kortii.
• Guenée, A., 1863. Lépidoptères. in Maillard, L., 1862. Notes sur l'Isle de la Réunion (Bourbon), Pt. 2, Annexe G. Paris. 72pp.
• Larsen, T., 1996. The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history. Oxford University Press, 522pp. ISBN: 978-0198500056
• Lewis, H. L., 1974. Butterflies of the World xvi + 104pp., 208 pls. London.
• Matsumura, S., 1915. [Micronesian Butterflies]. [Japanese with English Résume] Ent. Mag. (Kyoto) 1(2): 67-68; (3): 93-96.
• Rothschild, W., 1915. On the Lepidoptera in Tring museum sent by Mr. A. S. Meek from the Admiralty Islands, Dampier and Vulcan Islands. Novit. Zool. 22:192-208, 387-402.
• Saalmüller, M., 1878. Lepidopteren von Madagascar. 1 Rhopalocera; Heterocera: Sphinges et Bombyces. Frankfurt a.M. Heausg. Senck. Nat. Ges.[2] + 246 + [6] pp. 6 cpl. 1 fp.
• Trimen, R., 1862. On some new species of South African butterflies collected in British Kaffraria by W. S. M. D'Urban Esq., during 1860-1861. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3)1(4):398-406.
• Walker, F., 1870. A list of the butterflies collected by J. K. Lord in Egypt… Entomologist 5: 48-57.
• Williams, M. C., 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from [1] Afrotropical Butterflies.
• Wynter-Blyth, M. A., 1957; Butterflies of the Indian Region; (1982 Reprint)

Vernacular names

中文: 長腹灰蝶

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