Tajuria cippus, ♂, Hyderabad, India, J. M. Garg photo.

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: Tajuria
Species: Tajuria cippus
Subspecies: T. c. bagus – T. c. cippus – T. c. frontinus – T. c. longinus – T. c. malcolmi – T. c. maxentius – T. c. moultoni – T. c. pseudolonginus – T. c. theodosius – T. c. vandeldeni

Name

Tajuria cippus (Fabricius, 1798).

Type locality: "India Orientali"

Syntype: ♂ ZMUC.

Synonymy

  • Hesperia cippus Fabricius, 1789: 429, no. 43-4.
  • Hesperia longinus Fabricius, 1789: 430, no. 77-8.
  • Polyommatus cippus (Fabricius); Godart, 1819-1824: 634.
  • Amblypodia cippus (Fabricius); Westwood, [1851]: 478.
  • Iolaus cippus (Fabricius); Hewitson, 1865: 46, (Suppl.) 11, pl. 4, figs 39, 40 ♂.
  • Tajuria cippus (Fabricius); Fruhstorfer, 1912: 210; Yutaka, consulted 11.xii.2012.
  • Tajuria cippus cippus Pinratana, 1981: 129, pl. 32, figs 10 ♂, 11 ♀, pl. 34, fig. 17 (Un).

References

  • Fabricius, J.C. 1792. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus I. Pars 2. Hafniae: C.G. Proft, 538 pp. BHL PDF Reference page. 
  • Godart, J. B. 1819–1824. In Latreille & Godart, Encyclopedie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes 9 (article Papillons) (1): 1–328; (2): 329–828. Paris. Vol. 1, Vol. 2. Reference page. 
  • Hewitson, W.C. 1863–1878. Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp, 107 pls. Text, plates. Reference page. 
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