Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Remelanini
Genus: Ancema
Species: Ancema ctesia
Subspecies: A. c. agalla – A. c. cakravasti – A. c. ctesia

Ancema ctesia, ♂, India, Assam, Agra, Courvoisier collection NHM Basel, Alan Cassidy photo.
Ancema ctesia, female, in Elwes, 1888.
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

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Ancema ctesia (Hewitson, 1865).

Type locality: North India

Holotype: ♂ BMNH

Synonyms

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  • Camena ctesia Hewitson, 1865: 48, pl. 20, figs 1-2; Moore, [1866]: 775; de Nicéville, 1882: 63; Moore, 1884: 529; Elwes, 1888: 394, pl. 8, fig. 6 ♀; Swinhoe, 1893: 302; South, 1902: 137; Fruhstorfer, 1909: 40; Fruhstorfer, 1909: 116; Fruhstorfer, 1912: 207; Matsumura, 1919: 607, pl. 47, fig. 8;
  • Pratapa ctesia (Hewitson); Swinhoe, [1912]: 140, pl. 730, figs 2, 2b ♂, 2a ♀.
  • Pratapa parviocellata Murayama & Shibatani, 1948: 37–56. TL: Taiwan.
  • Ancema ctesia (Hewitson); D'Abrera, 1986: 611; Eliot, 1992: 319, 424, pl. 48, figs 19, 20, genitalia 314.
  • Camena cutesia [sic] Hewitson; Seki et al, 1991: 92.

References

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