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: Horagini
Genus: Horaga
Species: Horaga amethysta
Subspecies: Horaga amethysta purpurescens

Name

Horaga amethysta purpurescens Corbet, 1941.

Type locality: West Malaysia, Negri Sembilan.

Holotype: ♂ Port Dickson, 9.i.1938 (Ben, Selangor Museum collector).
Note: According to Cowan: "The holotype and allotype specimens which were in the F.M.S. Museum, Malaya, until the 1939-45 war, must be presumed lost, but there survive in B.M.(N.H.) three females of Corbet's original type-series."

Synonymy

  • Horaga amethystus purpurescens [sic] Corbet, 1941: 47; D'Abrera, 1986: 595; Eliot, 1992: 423.
  • Horaga amethysta purpurescens Corbet; Cowan, 1966: 131.

References

  • D'Abrera, B., 1986. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part III Lycaenidae & Riodinidae: pp. 536–672. Hill House, Melbourne. Reference page. 
  • Corbet, A. S., 1941. A revision of the Malayan species of Horaga Moore (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 10(3): 46. Reference page. 
  • Cowan C. F., 1966. Indo-oriental Horagini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) 18(4): 105–141, 3 pls. BHL Reference page. 
  • Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. Reference page. 
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