Cigaritis leechi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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: Aphnaeinae
Genus: Cigaritis
Species: Cigaritis leechi
Subspecies: C. l. arooni – C. l. leechi

Name

Cigaritis leechi (Swinhoe, [1912])

Type locality: W. China, Moupin.

Typus: Holotype male ♂ BMNH. See also ♀ allotype per Swinhoe.

Synonyms

• Aphnaeus leechi Swinhoe, [1912]: 184.
• Spindasis leechi leechi (Swinhoe, 1912); Murayama & Kimura, 1990: 24.
• Cigaritis leechi (Swinhoe, 1912); (Implicit recombination by generic synonomy) Yutaka & Saito/Savela.

References

• Murayama, S. & Kimura, Y., 1990. Some new butterflies from Thailand. Nature and Insects 25(2): 19–24, figs.1-23. Reference page. 
• Savela, M. Funet: Theclinae.
• Swinhoe, C., [1912]. In Moore, Lepidoptera Indica. 9 (1911-1912) Lycaenidae (cont.) and Hesperiidae, x + 278 pp, pls 706-756. London.
• Yutaka, I. & Saito, K., A Checklist of Butterflies in Indo-China, Chiefly from Thailand, Laos & Vietnam.