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: Rysops
Species: Rysops scintilla

Name

Rysops scintilla (Mabille, 1877).

Type locality: Madagascar, "Tamatave".

Holotype: not located.

Synonymy

  • Lycaena scintilla Mabille, 1877: 73.
  • Lycaena quadriocularis Saalmüller, 1884: 100, pl. 1, figs 7, 8. Madagascar: “N.-B.” [Nossi-Bé].
  • Rysops scintilla (Mabille); Eliot, 1973: 452; Ackery et al, 1995.
  • Catochrysops (Rysops) scintilla (Mabille); Lees et al, 2003; Williams, 2008, Polyommatini 1: 10.

References

  • Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R., Vane-Wright, R.I. 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London: i-xi, 1-803. ISBN 978-0-643-05561-2 Reference page. 
  • Lees, D.C., Kremen, C., & Raharitsimba, H., 2003. Lepidoptera: Systematics and diversity. In: Goodman, S.M., & Benstead, J.P. [Eds]. The Natural History of Madagascar. University of Chicago Press, 1709 pp. Chapter pagination: 748–761. BHL Reference page. 
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