Hypochrysops ignitus

Hypolycaena ignitus as Lycaena ignita Leach 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
Tribus: Luciini
Genus: Hypochrysops
Species: Hypochrysops ignitus
Subspecies: (5)
H. i. chrysonotus – H. i. chrysotoxus – H. i. erythrinus – H. i. ignitus – H. i. olliffi

Name

Hypochrysops ignitus (Leach, 1814).

Type locality: "New Holland"

Syntypes: not located.

Synonymy

• Lycaena ignita Leach, 1814: 136, pl. 60.
• Cupido ignita (Leach); Kirby, 1871: 376.
• Hypochrysops ignita (Leach); Kirby, 1877: 773; Druce, 1891: 185.
• Miletus ignitus (Leach); Olliff, 1889: 24.
• Miletus ignita (Leach); Waterhouse, 1903: 168, pl. 3, figs 13,32,33.
• Miletus ignita ignita (Leach); Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914: 89.
• Hypochrysops ignitus ignitus (Leach); Common & Waterhouse, 1981: 445; Sands, 1986: 51.

References

• Druce, H.H. 1891. A monograph of the Lycaenid genus Hypochrysops with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 39(2): 179–195, pls. 10, 11. Reference page. 
• Kirby, W.F. 1871. A synonymic catalogue of the diurnal lepidoptera. Van Voorst, London, 8vo, 690pp. BHL. ibid. 1877 Supplement. BHL Reference page. 
• Leach, W.E., 1814. The Zoological Miscellany: being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. Illustrated with coloured figures drawn from nature by R.P. Nodder. Vol. I. 144 pp. + 60 tt. London, E. Nodder & son. BHLReference page. 
• Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A Revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Entomonograph 7, 116pp., 3 pls. Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae, 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132–275, pls. ii–iii. Text, plates Reference page. 
• Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia. A monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera. 238 pp., 888 figs. Sydney. BHL Reference page.