Bindahara meeki

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
Tribe: Deudorigini
Genus: Bindahara
Species: Bindahara meeki
Subspecies: B. m. kolmaui – B. m. meeki – B. m. moluccana

Name

Bindahara meeki (Rothschild & Jordan, 1905)

Type locality: Papua New Guinea, Owgarra.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH, Angabunga River/St. Joseph River, 6,000ft., xi.1904 - ii. 1905 (A. S. Meek).

Synonymy

• Stilbon meeki Rothschild & Jordan, 1905: 465, D'Abrera, 1977: 301.
• Bindahara arfaki Bethune-Baker, 1913: 569, D'Abrera, 1977: 301. Holotype "♂", recte ♀, BMNH, Arfak Mts, Warmasin. Synonymised by Parsons, 1998: 410.
• Bindahara meeki (Rothschild & Jordan); Parsons, 1998: 410, pl.63, figs 1741,1742 & pl.64, figs 1743-1745.

References

• D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne. Reference page. 
• Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1913. Descriptions of new species of lepidoptera from Africa and the East. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 8(11): 562–575. BHL. Reference page. 
• Müller, C.J. & D.P.A. Sands, 1999: A new subspecies of Bindahara meeki Rothschild & Jordan (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Australian Entomologist 26(4): 103–110. Reference page. 
• Okubo, K., 2007. A new species and a new subpecies of lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera) from the Moluccas, Indonesia. Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan. 58 (3): 364-366. Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page. 
• Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K. 1905. On some new Lepidoptera discovered by A. S. Meek in British New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 12: 448–478. BHL Reference page.