Hypolycaena phorbas purpura

Hypolycaena phorbas purpura

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: Hypolycaenini
Genus: Hypolycaena
Species: Hypolycaena phorbas
Subspecies: Hypolycaena phorbas purpura

Name

Hypolycaena phorbas purpura Tennent, 2016.

Type locality: Papua New Guinea, Milne Bay Province, western Louisiades, N.E. Basilaki.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH, 20m, 3.ix.2010, (W.J.Tennent).

Synonymy

• Hypolycaena dictaea Parsons, 1998: 402, pl.61, figs 1666-1670, pl.xiv (genit.) (partim).
• Hypolycaena phorbas purpura Tennent, 2016: 8, figs 15-19, 33-35.

References

• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page. 
• Tennent, W.J., 2016. Notes on Hypolycaena phorbas (Fabricius, 1793), H. periphorbas Butler, 1882 and H. danis (Felder & Felder), 1865 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, with description of six new taxa from the Bismarck Archipelago and Milne Bay. Butterflies 72: 4-23, 89 figs. Reference page.