Arhopala chamaeleona

Arhopala chamaeleona, <♂:♀>, Papua New Guinea, John Tennent photos.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa 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 Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Arhopalini
Genus: Arhopala
Species: Arhopala chamaeleona
Subspecies: A. c. chamaeleona – A. c. maputi – A. c. mizunumai – A. c. rileyi – A. c. susyae

Name

Arhopala chamaeleona Bethune-Baker, 1903.

Type locality: Papua New Guinea.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH, Upper Aroa River. (A. S. Meek), iii.1903.

Synonymy

Arhopala chamaeleona Bethune-Baker, 1903: 217.
Arhopala elagabulus Fruhstorfer, 1914: 124. BMNH, Aroa River.
Arhopala restricta Rothschild, 1916: 36.
Arhopala heliogabulus Fruhstorfer, Seitz, 1926; mis-spelling of elagabulus Fruh.
Narathura chamaeleona Bethune-Baker; Evans, 1957: 112.
Arhopala elegabulus [sic], Fruhstorfer; Parsons, 1998: 386.

References

Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1903. A new species of Arhopala from British New Guinea. Ent. mon. Mag. 39: 217. BHL. Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of oriental lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 5(3): 85–141. BHL Reference page.
Fruhstorfer, H., 1914. Neue Arhopala Rassen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 28(2): 121–137. Reference page.
Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page.
Rothschild, L.W. 1916. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea (Macrolepidoptera). 182 pp., 2 pls. Zoological Museum, Tring. Text, plates. Reference page.
Seitz, A. 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. The Macrolepidoptera of the World 9: 1–766; 767–1201, pls 1–175. Reference page.
Tennent, W.J.. & Rawlins, A., 2010: Notes on Arhopala Boisduval, 1832 from Sulawesi and Maluku, including new subspecies of A. argentea Staudinger, 1888, A. chamaeleona Bethune-Baker, 1903, and A. azenia (Hewitson, [1863]) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologische Vereins Apollo N.F. 31(1/2): 9-16. web Reference page.
Treadaway, C.G. & Schröder, H.G. 2012. Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 32 (Suppl. 20): 64pp. Reference page.

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