Ancema blanka

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Remelanini
Genus: Ancema
Species: Ancema blanka
Subspecies: A. b. blanka –A. b. minturna –A. b. nacandra –A. b. sudica –A. b. reina

Ancema blanka, ♂♂, Thailand, West Malaysia, Borneo

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

Name

Ancema blanka (de Nicéville, 1894).

Type locality: Indonesia, Sumatra, Battack Mts.

Holotype: not located.

Synonyms

• Camena cippus Fabricius, 1798 (= Pratapa argentea, Aurivillius); de Nicéville, 1890: 340; [misidentified/misapplied].
• Tajuria blanka de Nicéville, 1894: 39, pl.4, fig.4.
• Pratapa argentea Aurivillius, [1898]: 146. (nom. nov. Camena cippus de Nicéville, 1890)
• Pratapa lucidus Druce, 1895: 596, pl.XXXIII, fig.3; TL: Borneo, Labuan. Synonymised in Seki et al, 1991: 92 as lucida [sic].
• Camena lucidus Druce; Fruhstorfer, 1912: 207.
• Camena ludica argentea Aurivillius; Fruhstorfer, 1912: 207.
• Pratapa blanka (de Nicéville); Wynter-Blyth, 1957: 338.
• Camena blanka (de Nicéville); Lewis, 1974: pl. 174, f. 31]
• Camena cippus Fabricius, 1798 (= Pratapa argentea, Aurivillius); de Nicéville, 1890: 340; [misidentified/misapplied].
• Ancema blanka (de Nicéville); D'Abrera, 1982: 611.
• Ancema blanka blanka (de Nicéville); Seki et al, 1991: 92; Eliot, 1992: 424.

References

• D'Abrera, B. 1986. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part III Lycaenidae & Riodinidae: pp. 536–672. Hill House, Melbourne. Reference page. 
• Aurivillius, P. [1898]: Bemerkungen zu den von J. Chr. Fabricius aus dänischen Sammlungen beschriebenen Lepidopteren. Entomologisk tidskrift 18: 139–174. BHL 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. 
• Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. Ubersicht der Lycaeniden des Indo-Australischen Gebiets. Begründet auf die Ausbeute und die Sammlung des Autors. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 56(3/4): 197–272, 4 figs. Reference page. 
• Lewis, H.L. 1974. Butterflies of the World, xvi + 312pp., 208 pls. Harrap, London. ISBN 0-245-52097-X; Open Library. Reference page. 
• de Nicéville, L., 1890. The butterflies of India, Burmah & Ceylon. 3. Calcutta, xi + 503 pp., Pls XXV-XXIX. Reference page. 
• de Nicéville, L., 1894. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region. J. Asiatic. Soc. Beng. 63: 1–58, 5 pls. Reference page. 
• Seki, Y. & Takanami, Y. and Otsuka, K., 1991. Butterflies of Borneo Vol. 2, No. 1. Lycaenidae. Tobishima Corporation, Tokyo. Reference page. 
• Wynter-Blyth, M. A., 1957; Butterflies of the Indian Region Scholarly Publications, 523pp, 72 pls. (1982 Reprint). Reference page. 

Vernacular names

বাংলা: সাদা লোচন
English: Silver Royal

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