Catapaecilma elegans

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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: Catapaecilmatini
Genus: Catapaecilma
Species: Catapaecilma elegans
Subspecies: C. e. chaline – C. e. elegans – C. e. niasana – C. e. zephyria

Name

Catapaecilma elegans (Druce,H., 1873).

Synonyms

• Hypochrysops elegans Druce, 1873: 350, pl.32 fig.12.
• Catapaecilma elegans (Druce); Butler, 1879: 548; D'Abrera, 1986: 588; Seki et al, 1991: 73, L264; Eliot, 1992: 295, 421, pl.45, figs 10,11, genit. 270.
• Catapoecilma elegans (Druce); Moore, 1911: 2, pl.706 figs 1, 1a-c.

Distribution

Southeast Asia

Type locality: Borneo.

Holotype: ♀ BMNH.

References

• D'Abrera, B. 1986. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part III Lycaenidae & Riodinidae: pp. 536–672. Hill House, Melbourne. Reference page. 
• Butler, A. G., 1879. The Butterflies of Malacca. Trans. linn. Soc. Lond. (2) Zool. 1(8): 533-568, pls 68,69. Reference page. 
• Druce, H. 1873. A list of the Collections of Diurnal Lepidoptera made by Mr. Lowe in Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873: 337–361 pls 32,33. 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. 
• Seki, Y. & Takanami, Y. and Otsuka, K., 1991. Butterflies of Borneo Vol. 2, No. 1. Lycaenidae. Tobishima Corporation, Tokyo. Reference page. 

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