Euchrysops malathana

Euchrysops malathana

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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Euchrysops
Species: Euchrysops malathana

Name

Euchrysops malathana (Boisduval, 1833).

Type locality: “Madagascar”.

Holotype: not located.

Synonymy

• Lycaena malathana Boisduval, 1833: 174.
• Lycaena asopus Hopffer, 1855: 642. Mozambique. Synonymy in Williams, 2008: 122.
• Lycaena kama Trimen, 1862: 403. South Africa: “King William’s Town”. Synonymy in Williams, 2008: 122.
• Lycaena conguensis Mabille, 1877: 218. “Congo”. Synonymy in Williams, 2008: 122.
• Euchrysops malathana (Boisduval); Williams, 2008: Polyommatini 1: 120.

References

• Boisduval, J.-A. 1833. Mémoire sur les Lépidoptères de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle 2: 149–270. Reference page. 
• Hopffer, C. 1855. Lepidoptera Diurna. Berichte über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855: 639–643. Reference page. 
• Mabille, P. 1877. Catalogue des Lepidoptères du Congo. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France 2: 214–240. Reference page. 
• 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. BHL. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.