Thermozephyrus | |
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Specimen from Japan | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Tribe: | Theclini |
Genus: | Thermozephyrus Inomata & Itagaki, 1986 |
Species: | T. ataxus |
Binomial name | |
Thermozephyrus ataxus (Westwood, 1851) | |
Synonyms | |
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Thermozephyrus ataxus, the wonderful hairstreak, is a small butterfly found from India to Japan that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Taxonomy
The butterfly was previously classified as Thecla ataxus Doubleday. It is also presently classified as Chrysozephyrus ataxus.
Range
The species occurs in Murree (Pakistan), and in India from Jammu and Kashmir to Kumaon and in the Naga Hills. In general, the range extends from the western Himalayas to China and Japan.
Subspecies
- Thermozephyrus ataxus ataxus (north-western India to Upper Burma)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus kirishimaensis (Okajima, 1922) (Japan)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus lingi (Okano & Okura, 1969) (Taiwan)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus motohiroi (Fujioka, 2001)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus yakushimaensis (Yazaki, 1924) (Japan)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus tsukiyamai (Fujioka, 2001) (Myanmar)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus zulla (Tytler, 1915) (Assam, western China)
Cited references
- "Catalogue of the family-group, genus-group and species-group names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the world". 1994.
- "Thermozephyrus".
- "Catalogue of the family-group, genus-group and species-group names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the world". 1994.
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chrysozephyrus ataxus". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
- ^ Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 250, ser no H41.4.
- Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Chrysozephyrus.
- Thermozephyrus at funet
See also
References
- Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
- Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
- "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".
- Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.
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Thermozephyrus ataxus |
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