Jamides cyta zelea ♂, ♀, Sulawesi, Project Wallace material, Alan Cassidy photo.
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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Jamides
Species: Jamides cyta
Subspecies: J. c. amphissa – J. c. amphissina – J. c. aruanus – J. c. courvoisieri – J. c. claudia – J. c. cyta – J. c. hellada – J. c. koenigswarteri – J. c. lamax – J. c. leiothrix – J. c. lividus – J. c. madara – J. c. margarita – J. c. megdora – J. c. minna – J. c. natsumiae – J. c. nemea – J. c. raddatzi – J. c. stevei – J. c. vardusia – J. c. zelea

Name

Jamides cyta (Boisduval), [1832]

Type locality: New Ireland

Holotype: ♂ not located.

Synonymy

  • Catochrysops cyta Boisduval, [1832]: 87.
  • Lampides amphissina var. malaguna Ribbe, 1899: 228. Lectotype: MTKD designated by Takanami, 1989.
  • Pepliophorus amphissa (Felder); Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914: 102.
  • Jamides cyta (Boisduval); Hirowatari, 1992: 45; Rawlins et al, 2014: 13.
  • Jamides cytus (Boisduval); Parsons, 1998: 449.

References

  • Boisduval, J.B. 1832. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe (etc). Faune entomologique de l'Ocean Pacifique (etc). Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris. J Tastu, 267pp, Pls. 1–12. Reference page. 
  • Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture (B) 44 (Suppl.) PDF. Reference page. 
  • Müller, C.J. 2016. A stunning new species of Jamides Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), with notes on sympatric congeners from the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. ZooKeys 571: 113–131. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.571.7356.Reference page. 
  • Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page. 
  • Rawlins, A., Cassidy, A., Müller, C., Schröder, S. & Tennent, W. J. 2014. An Illustrated and annotated checklist of Jamides Hübner, 1819, taxa occurring in the Indonesian Provinces of North Maluku and Maluku (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo N.F. 35(1/2): 5-39. web Reference page. 
  • Takanami, Y., 1989. On some type specimens of Lycaenidae from South East Asia. Tyô to Ga 40(1): 23-80. PDF. Reference page. 
  • Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia. A monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera. 238 pp., 888 figs. Sydney. BHL Reference page. 
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Vernacular names

English: Pale Caerulean
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