Eooxylides etias

Eooxylides etias, ♂, Borneo, Sabah, Alan Cassidy photo.

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: Loxurini
Genus: Eooxylides
Species: Eooxylides etias
Subspecies: E. e. etias – E. e. shahaniae

Name

Eooxylides etias (Distant & Pryer, 1887).

Type locality: North Borneo, Sandakan.

Holotype: BMNH.

Synonyms

• Hypolycaena etias Distant & Pryer, 1887: 268
• Eooxylides etias (Distant & Pryer); Druce, 1895: 618; Seki et al, 1991: 75, pl. 48 L273.
• Eoöxylides [sic] etias (Distant & Pryer); Druce, 1896: 680, pl. 31, fig. 12 ♂.

References

• Distant, W. L. & Pryer, W. B., 1887. On the Rhopalocera of northern Borneo, Pt. 2. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5)19: 264-275.
• Druce, H. H., 1895. A monograph of the Bornean Lycaenidae, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1895: 556-627, 4 pls.
• Druce, H. H., 1896. Further contributions to our knowledge of the Bornean Lycaenidae. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1896(3): 650-683, 3 pls.
• Seki, Y., Takanami, Y. and Otsuka, K., 1991. Butterflies of Borneo Vol. 2, No. 1. Lycaenidae. Tobishima Corporation, Tokyo.

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