Deudorix batikelides

Deudorix batikelides from original description.

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
Tribe: Deudorigini
Genus: Deudorix
Subgenus: Virachola
Species: Deudorix batikelides

Name

Deudorix batikelides Holland, 1920.

Type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo: “Niangara”.

Types: CM; HT ♂, xi.1910; AT ♀ Kenya: “Mombassa, E. Africa”.

Synonymy

• Deudorix batikelides Holland, 1920: 221
• =Deudorix (Pilodeudorix) caerulea caerulea Druce; Fox et al 1965: 338.
• Virachola batikelides (Holland); Stempffer, 1967: 109.
• =Deudorix caerulea caerulea Druce; Ackery et al., 1995.
• Deudorix (Virachola) batikelides (Holland); Williams, 2007: Deudoricina 38.
• =Deudorix diocles Hewitson; Larsen, 1991: 207.

References

• Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page. 
• Fox R.M., Lindsey A.W., Clench H.K. & Miller L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 19: 1–438. BHL. Reference page. 
• Holland, W.J. 1920. Lepidoptera of the Congo; Being a Systematic List of the Butterflies and Moths Collected by The American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, Together With Descriptions of Some Hitherto Undescribed Species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 43(6): 109-369, Pls.VI-XIV. Reference page. 
• Larsen, T.B., 1991. The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History. Oxford University Press, Oxford: i-xxii, 1-490. Reference page. 
• Mabille, P., 1878. Lepidoptera Africana. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France 3: 81–95. BHL. 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.