Hypolycaena phorbas silo, female Type specimen, New Guinea, from BMNH coll.

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: Hypolycaenini
Genus: Hypolycaena
Species: Hypolycaena phorbas
Sub-Species: Hypolycaena phorbas silo

Name

Hypolycaena phorbas silo Fruhstorfer, 1912

Type locality: "Neu-Guinea"

Allotype (Paratype) ♀: BMNH, "Fr. Wilh. Hafen". Holotype, presumably ♂, not located.

Synonymy

  • Hypolycaena phorbas silo Fruhstorfer, 1912: 239.
  • Hypolycaena latostrigatus van Eecke, 1915: 75, pl.3, fig.10. Syntype ♂ Irian Jaya, Kloofbivak RML.
  • Hypolycaena pseudophorbas Rothschild, 1915: 33. ♀ Utakwa River, BMNH.
  • Hypolycaena watleri Fruhstorfer, 1916: 69, proposed as a nom. nov. for pseudophorbas.

References

  • van Eecke, R., 1915. Studies on Indo-Australian Lepidoptera II. The Lepidoptera collected by the third New Guinea expedition. Nova Guinea, Zoologie 13: 55-79, 3 pls. text, plates. 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. 
  • The Papua Insects Foundation, images.
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