Cupidopsis jobates jobates

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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Cupidopsis
Species: Cupidopsis jobates
Subspecies: Cupidopsis jobates jobates

Name

Cupidopsis jobates jobates (Hopffer, 1855).

Type locality: South Africa, “King William’s Town”.

Holotype: not located.

Synonymy

• Lycaena jobates Hopffer, 1855. Berichte über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855: 642 (639-643).
• Lycaena siwani Trimen, 1862: 402. South Africa: “King William’s Town”.
• Cupido iobates conjugens (ab.) Strand, 1912: 81. Tanzania: “Morogoro”.
• Cupido jobates ochreopuncta (ab.) Aurivillius, [1925]: 490. Namibia: “Damara-Land”; South Africa: “Griqua-Land; Transvaal”; Mozambique: “Delegoa-Bai”.
• Euchrysops jobates jobates (Hopffer); Williams, 2008, Polyommatini 1: 6.

References

• Aurivillius, C. 1908–1925. In: Seitz, A., 1908–25. Die Großschmetterlinge des Afrikanischen Faunengebietes. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 13: 1-613, pls. 1-80. Reference page. 
• Hopffer, C. 1855. Lepidoptera Diurna. Berichte über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855: 639–643. Reference page. 
• Strand, E. 1912. Uber Lepidoptera aus Mkatta und Morogoro in Deutsch Ost-Afrika, nebst Beitragen zur Kenntnis afrikanischer Taragama-Arten. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 78 (A.1.): 67–92. BHL Reference page. 
• Trimen, R., 1862. On some new species of South African butterflies collected in British Kaffraria by W.S.M. D'Urban Esq., during 1860–1861. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3)1(4): 398–406. BHL. Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.