Arhopala major

Arhopala catori =major, ♂, from Bethune-Baker, 1903.

Arhopala major, ♂, Brunei.

Taxonavigation

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: Theclinae
Tribus: Arhopalini
Genus: Arhopala
Species: Arhopala major
Subspecies: A. m. major – A. m. parvimaculata

Name

Arhopala major (Staudinger, 1889)

Type locality: West Malaysia, Malacca.

Lectotype: ♂ MNHU, Malacca, designated by Takanami, 1989: 27.

Synonymy

• Amblypodia agesilaus var. major Staudinger, 1889: 128.
• Arhopala catori Bethune-Baker, 1903: 93, Pl.2 Fig.11, Pl.5 Figs 8,8a. Borneo, ♂ BMNH.
• Narathura major (Staudinger), Evans, 1957: 97.
• Arhopala catori parvimaculata Okubo, 1983: 178, Figs 29-32. Malaysia, Tioman Is.
• Arhopala major (Staudinger); Seki et al, 1991: 59, Pl.34 L184; Eliot, 1992: 279, 419, Pl.40, figs 13,14, Pl.66, fig.2; Treadaway, 1995:74.

References

• Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1903. A revision of the Amblypodia group of butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 17(1): 3–164, 5 pls. text, plates. Reference page. 
• Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 595pp., 69 pls. Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of oriental lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 5(3): 85–141. BHL Reference page. 
• Okubo, K., 1983. Butterflies of Tioman Island, West Malaysia, with the description of new species. Tyô-to-Ga 33:168-184, 47 figs. PDF. Reference page. 
• Seki, Y. & Takanami, Y. and Otsuka, K., 1991. Butterflies of Borneo Vol. 2, No. 1. Lycaenidae. Tobishima Corporation, Tokyo. Reference page. 
• Staudinger, O. 1889. Lepidopteren der Insel Palawan. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (Iris) 2(1): 3–180, pls. 1,2. Reference page. 
• Takanami, Y., 1989. On some type specimens of Lycaenidae from South East Asia. Tyô to Ga 40(1): 23-80. PDF. Reference page. 
• Treadaway, C.G. 1995. Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo Suppl. 14: 7–118. Reference page.