Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Aphnaeinae
Genus: Cigaritis
Species: Cigaritis acamas
Subspecies: (9) [per Savela, M.]
C. a. acamas –
C. a. bellatrix –
C. a. chitralensis –
C. a. cypriaca –
C. a. divisa –
C. a. dueldueli –
C. a. egyptiaca –
C. a. gilletti –
C. a. hypargyros –
C. a. obscurata
Name
Cigaritis acamas Klug, [1834]).
Type locality: “Syria et Arabia felici”.
Lectotype: ♀ lectotype designated by Larsen, 1983: 377; see Nekrutenko, 2000: 198.
Synonymy
- Lycaena acamas Klug, [1834]: (140) pl. 40. figs 7-9.
- Zeritis acanms (Klug); Westwood, [1852]: 501.
- Cigarites acamas [sic] (Klug); Lederer, 1857: 27, (part).
- Aphnaeus acamas (Klug); Hewitson, [1869]: 62; Kirby, [1871]: 404.
- Apharitis acamas (Klug); Ackery et al., 1995; D'Abrera, 2009: 702.
- Cigaritis acamas (Klug); Heath et al., 2002; Williams, 2008; Savela, consulted 10.iii.2015.
References
- D'Abrera, B., 2009. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, second edition, Part 3, Theclinae, Polyommatinae, Riodinidae. Hill House, Melbourne, London. 260pp. Reference page.
- Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page.
- Heath, A., Newport, M.A., & Hancock, D. 2002. The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa. i–xvii, 1–137. Reference page.
- Hewitson, W.C. 1863–1878. Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp, 107 pls. Text, plates. Reference page.
- Kirby, W.F. 1871. A synonymic catalogue of the diurnal lepidoptera. Van Voorst, London, 8vo, 690pp. BHL. ibid. 1877 Supplement. BHL Reference page.
- Klug, J. C. F., 1829-1845. Insects. In Ehrenberg, C. G., Symbolae physicae seu Icones et descriptiones corporum naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum: quae ex itineribus per Libyam Aegyptum Nubiam Dongalam Syriam Arabiam et Habessiniam publico institutis sumptu F.G.H. et C.G.E. (3). Pars zoologica II, Insecta. Hemprich et Ehrenberg, Berlin, unpaginated letterpress, 50 pls. Web. Reference page.
- Lederer, J. 1857. Ueber die Lycaeinden-Gattungen der europäischen Fauna . Wiener entomologische Monatschrift 1: 25–32. BHL Reference page.
- Nekrutenko, Y., 2000. A catalogue of the type specimens of Palaearctic Riodinidae and Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) deposited in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Nota lepidopterologica 23 (3/4): 192–352. BHL. Reference page.
- Westwood, J.O. [1851]. In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O., 1850–1852: The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera Vol.2. pp.251–534, pls.31–80 + suppl.pl. London. text, plates. Reference page.
Links
- Williams, M.C. 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Cigaritis Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.
- Savela, M., Funet, Lepidoptera: Cigaritis.
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