Drupadia scaeva cyara

Drupadia scaeva cyara, ♀, India, Darjeeling, as Myrina cyara Hew., 1878.

Taxonavigation

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: Theclinae
Tribus: Cheritrini
Genus: Drupadia
Species: Drupadia scaeva
Subspecies: Drupadia scaeva cyara

Drupadia scaeva cyara (Hewitson, 1878).

Type locality: India.

Holotype: ♀ BMNH, West Bengal (North) , Darjeeling, ex coll. Hewitson.

[Myrina melisa '♀' Hewitson, 1869: Suppl. p.26, Suppl, pl.3, figs 82,83. Misidentification.]
Myrina cyara Hewitson, 1878: Suppl. p.26, Suppl. pl.3b, figs 109,110.
Biduanda cyara (Hewitson); de Nicéville, 1890: 427; Riley & Godfrey, 1921: 187; Seitz, 1926: 988, pl.146B, figs d2,d3 (as melisa), d4,d5.
Biduanda melisa cyara (Hewitson); Evans, 1925: 766.
Marmessus scaeva cyara (Hewitson); Cantlie, 1963: 135
Drupadia scaeva cyara (Hewitson): Cowan, 1974: 342, pl.3, figs 77,81.

Cantlie, K., 1963. The Lycaenidae portion of Evans' Identification of Indian Butterflies (1932) reissued and revised, 160 pp., 6 pls. Bombay. Reference page.

Cowan C. F., 1974. The Indo-Oriental genus Drupadia Moore (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) 29(6): 281–356, 6 pls, 15 figs. BHL Reference page.

Evans, W. H., 1925. The identification of Indian butterflies, Pt. 8. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 30(4): 756–776, pl.29. BHL. Reference page.

Hewitson, W.C. 1863–1878. Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp, 107 pls. Text, plates. Reference page.

de Nicéville, L., 1890. The butterflies of India, Burmah & Ceylon. 3. Calcutta, xi + 503 pp. Text, Pls. Reference page.

Riley, N.D. & Godfrey, E. J., 1925. New Rhopalocera from Siam and Hainan. Entomologist 58:140-143, pl. 3, 7 figs. Reference page.

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