Amblypodia anita

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 Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola 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: Amblypodiini
Genus: Amblypodia
Species: Amblypodia anita
Subspecies: A. a. andamanica – A. a. anita – A. a. gigantea – A. a. hainana – A. a. naradoides – A. a. orla – A. a. parva

Name

Amblypodia anita Hewitson, 1862.

Type locality: Thailand.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH.

Synonymy

Amblypodia anita Hewitson, 1862: 14, pl.8 figs 90-91; Butler, 1883: 147; Elwes, 1888: 403; de Nicéville, 1890: 211, pl.27 fig.191 ♀; Druce, 1895: 587; Pinratana, 1981: 111, pl. 19, fig.15; Eliot, 1992: 294, pl. 44, figs 12, 13, genit. 267.
Amblypodia darana Moore, 1879: 141, Sri Lanka.
Amblypodia arracana Grose-Smith, 1887: 268, N.E. India, Arracan Hills.
Amblypodia narada dina Fruhstorfer, 1907: 150; synonymised by Riley, 1922: 27.
Horsfieldia anita (Hewitson); Riley, 1922: 26.

References

Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1903. A revision of the Amblypodia group of butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 17(1): 3–164, 5 pls. text, plates. Reference page.
Butler, A. G., 1883. On a collection of Lepidoptera received from Lt. Col. Charles Swinhoe… Proc. zool. Soc. London 1883(2): 144-175, pl.24. BHL text, plate. Reference page.
Druce, H.H. 1895. A monograph of the Bornean Lycaenidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1895(3): 556-627, 4 pls. Reference page.
Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 595pp., 69 pls. Reference page.
Elwes, H.J. 1888. A catalogue of the lepidoptera of Sikkim. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 36(3): 269–465, pls 8–11. Text, plates. Reference page.
Grose-Smith, H., 1887. Descriptions of eight new species of Asiatic butterflies. Annals and Magazine of natural History (5)20: 265–268. BHL Reference page.
Hewitson, W. C., 1862. Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum. London, British Museum. 15pp, 8 pls. BHL text, plates. Reference page.
Moore, F., 1879. Descriptions of new Asiatic diurnal Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1879: 136–144. BHL. Reference page.
de Nicéville, L., 1890. The butterflies of India, Burmah & Ceylon. 3. Calcutta, xi + 503 pp., Pls XXV-XXIX. Reference page.
Pinratana, A., 1981. Butterflies in Thailand, Vol. 4, Lycaenidae.Viratham Press, Bangkok. Reference page.
Riley, N.D., 1922. The genus Amblypodia auctorum (de Nicéville, Moore, Swinhoe, etc), nec Horsfield. Entomologist 55: 25-29, 51-53. BHL1, BHL2. Reference page.