Deudorix edwardsi

Virachola edwardsi 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: Deudorix
Subgenus: Virachola
Species: Deudorix edwardsi

Name

Deudorix edwardsi Gabriel, 1939.

Type locality: Uganda: “Namwamba Valley, 6500ft”.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH No. Rh.469; Allotype ♀ Rh.470, (Jackson).

Synonymy

• Virachola edwardsi Gabriel, 1939: 74, pl.6 figs 8,9; Stempffer, 1967: 110.
• Deudorix (Virachola) edwardsi (Gabriel); Williams, 2007: Deudoricina 47. Replacement name.

References

• Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1905. Some notes on the Lycaenidae collected by Doherty on the Kikuyu escarpmant, now in the Tring museum. Novit. zool. 12: 492–496. BHL. Reference page. 
• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Gifford, D.R. 1963. A review of some Nyasaland Deudorix (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Entomologist 96: 43–48. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.