Rapala tara

Rapala tara, ♂, N. India, from original description.

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
Tribe: Deudorigini
Genus: Rapala
Species: Rapala tara

Name

Rapala tara de Nicéville, [1889].

Type locality: N. India, Sylhet.

Holotype: ♂ not located.

Synonymy

• Rapala tara de Nicéville, [1889]: 284, pl. 14, fig 11; D'Abrera, 1986: 628.
• Rapala francesca Swinhoe, 1911: 52, pl. 716, figs 4, 4a. Synonymised in Bridges, 1994: IX.112.

References

• D'Abrera, B., 1986. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part III Lycaenidae & Riodinidae: pp. 536-672. Melbourne.
• Bridges, C. A., 1994. Catalogue of Lycaenidae & Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bridges, Urbana, Illinois.
• de Nicéville, L., [1889]. On new or little known butterflies from the Indian Region J. Asiatic Soc. Beng. 57(II)(4): 273-293, pls. 13, 14.
• Swinhoe, C., 1911. In Moore Lepidoptera Indica. 8 (1910-1911) Lycaenidae, x + 293 pp., pls 640-705a.

For more multimedia, look at Rapala tara on Wikimedia Commons.