Chilades lajus, as Papilio lajus from Caspar Stoll's original description.
Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Divisio: Eulepidoptera
Sectio: Ditrysia
Subsectio: Apoditrysia
Clade: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Chilades
Species: Chilades lajus
Subspecies (6): C. l. athena C. l. cromyon C. l. koshunensis C. l. lajus C. l. leucofasciatus C. l. tavoyanus

Name

Chilades lajus (Stoll, [1780]).

Type locality: India, Coromandel coast.

Holotype: not located.

Synonyms

  • Papilio lajus Stoll. [1780]: 4(27), p. 62, pl. 319, figs D, E.
  • Hesperia cajus Fabricius, 1793: 296.
  • Lycaena brahmina C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865: 279, pl. 35, figs 15,16. Bengal.
  • Polyommatus varunana Moore, [1866]: 772, pl. 41, fig. 6. Lectotype ♂ BMNH designated by Bálint, 1999: 62
  • Polyommatus kandura Moore, [1866]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (3) : 772, pl. 41, f. 7
  • Chilades laius [sic] (Stoll); Moore, 1881: 77; Swinhoe, 1885: 133.
  • Chilades varunana (Moore); Moore, 1881: 77, pl. 35, fig. 3; Swinhoe, 1885: 133.
  • Chilades lajus (Stoll); Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003: 164.

References

  • Fabricius, J.C., 1793. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 3(1): [vi], pp. 1-349. C. G. Proft, Hafniae. BHL. Reference page. 
  • Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1865–75. Rhopalocera. In Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in der Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 under den Befehlen Commadore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band: Abtheilung. Vienna, 549 pp., 140 pls. Text. Plates. Reference page. 
  • Moore, F., [1866]. On the lepidopterous insects of Bengal. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865(3): 755–823, 3 pls. text, plates. Reference page. 
  • Moore, F., 1881. Lepidoptera of Ceylon Volume 1. L. Reeve & Co., London. 190 pp. 71 pls. text, plates. Reference page. 
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