Purlisa gigantea

Purlisa gigantea, ♀, West Malaysia, from Waterhouse, 1882.

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: Iolaini
Genus: Purlisa
Species: Purlisa gigantea
Subspecies: (2)
P. g. borneana – P. g. gigantea

Purlisa gigantea (Distant, 1881).

Type locality: W. Malaysia, Penang.

Holotype: ♀ BMNH.

Iolaus (Purlisa) giganteus Distant, 1881: 245.
Purlisa giganteus Distant; Shelford, 1900: 257; Druce, 1895: 602.
Purlisa gigantea Distant; Waterhouse, 1882: pl. 46; Distant, 1885: 250, pl. 21, fig. 28; Elwes, [1893]: 640; Fruhstorfer, [1904]: 310; Moulton, 1913: 282.
Purlisa gigantea gigantea Distant; Eliot, 1992: 314, 424, pl. 47, figs 29, 30.

Distant, W. L., 1881. Description of a new species of Lycaenidae from Penang. Ent. mon. Mag 17: 245. Reference page.

Distant, W. L., 1882-1886. Rhopalocera Malayana. 16 + 481pp., 41pls. London. BHL text, plates. Reference page.

Druce, H.H. 1895. A monograph of the Bornean Lycaenidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1895(3): 556–627, 4 pls. text, plates. 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.

Elwes, H.J., [1893]. On butterflies collected by Mr. W. Doherty in the Naga and Karen Hills and in Perak (part ii). Proc. zool. Soc. Lond 1892: 617–664, pls 43,44. BHL text, plates Reference page.

Fruhstorfer, H., [1904]. Neue Lycaeniden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. Iris 16: 310-312. Reference page.

Moulton, J.C. 1913. On some new and little-known Bornean Lycaenidae, together with a revision of the Thecline genus Thamala, Moore. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1913(2): 273–283, 1 pl. Text. Reference page.
Shelford, R. H., 1900. Notes from the Sarawak Museum. J. Straits Brch. R. asiat. Soc. 33 (1900): 256-261.
Waterhouse, C. O., 1882. Aid to the identification of insects 1 : 15pp., 100 pls. London.

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