Ionolyce brunnescens

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: Ionolyce
Species: Ionolyce brunnescens
Subspecies: I. b. brunnescens –I. b. cristobalus

Name

Ionolyce brunnescens Tite, 1963.

Type locality: Solomons, Isabel Is.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH "Isabel Is., vi-vii.1901, B.M. Type No. Rh. 16600; Allotype: ♀ BMNH, "Guizo Is., xi. 1903, B.M. Type No. Rh. 16601. Both (A. S. Meek).

Synonymy

• Ionolyce brunnescens Tite, 1963: 101, pl.2 figs 1-4, text-figs 69,71 and 72; Hirowatari, 1992: 34, pl. II 8a-b, fig. 33, C-D; Parsons, 1998: 440.
• Ionolyce brunnescens brunnescens Tite; Tennent, 2002: 96, pl. 47, figs 29-32.

References

• Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture (B) 44 (Suppl.) PDF. Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page. 
• Tennent, W.J., 2002. Butterflies of the Solomon Islands: Systematics and Biogreography. 413 pp., 90 pls. Storm Entomological Publishing, Dereham, Norfolk, England. Reference page. 
• Tite, G. E., 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent) 13(4): 67-116, 91 figs, 2.pls.Reference page. 

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